1 acpi= [HW,ACPI,X86,ARM64] 2 Advanced Configuration and Power Interface 3 Format: { force | on | off | strict | noirq | rsdt | 4 copy_dsdt } 5 force -- enable ACPI if default was off 6 on -- enable ACPI but allow fallback to DT [arm64] 7 off -- disable ACPI if default was on 8 noirq -- do not use ACPI for IRQ routing 9 strict -- Be less tolerant of platforms that are not 10 strictly ACPI specification compliant. 11 rsdt -- prefer RSDT over (default) XSDT 12 copy_dsdt -- copy DSDT to memory 13 For ARM64, ONLY "acpi=off", "acpi=on" or "acpi=force" 14 are available 15 16 See also Documentation/power/runtime_pm.txt, pci=noacpi 17 18 acpi_apic_instance= [ACPI, IOAPIC] 19 Format: <int> 20 2: use 2nd APIC table, if available 21 1,0: use 1st APIC table 22 default: 0 23 24 acpi_backlight= [HW,ACPI] 25 acpi_backlight=vendor 26 acpi_backlight=video 27 If set to vendor, prefer vendor specific driver 28 (e.g. thinkpad_acpi, sony_acpi, etc.) instead 29 of the ACPI video.ko driver. 30 31 acpi_force_32bit_fadt_addr 32 force FADT to use 32 bit addresses rather than the 33 64 bit X_* addresses. Some firmware have broken 64 34 bit addresses for force ACPI ignore these and use 35 the older legacy 32 bit addresses. 36 37 acpica_no_return_repair [HW, ACPI] 38 Disable AML predefined validation mechanism 39 This mechanism can repair the evaluation result to make 40 the return objects more ACPI specification compliant. 41 This option is useful for developers to identify the 42 root cause of an AML interpreter issue when the issue 43 has something to do with the repair mechanism. 44 45 acpi.debug_layer= [HW,ACPI,ACPI_DEBUG] 46 acpi.debug_level= [HW,ACPI,ACPI_DEBUG] 47 Format: <int> 48 CONFIG_ACPI_DEBUG must be enabled to produce any ACPI 49 debug output. Bits in debug_layer correspond to a 50 _COMPONENT in an ACPI source file, e.g., 51 #define _COMPONENT ACPI_PCI_COMPONENT 52 Bits in debug_level correspond to a level in 53 ACPI_DEBUG_PRINT statements, e.g., 54 ACPI_DEBUG_PRINT((ACPI_DB_INFO, ... 55 The debug_level mask defaults to "info". See 56 Documentation/acpi/debug.txt for more information about 57 debug layers and levels. 58 59 Enable processor driver info messages: 60 acpi.debug_layer=0x20000000 61 Enable PCI/PCI interrupt routing info messages: 62 acpi.debug_layer=0x400000 63 Enable AML "Debug" output, i.e., stores to the Debug 64 object while interpreting AML: 65 acpi.debug_layer=0xffffffff acpi.debug_level=0x2 66 Enable all messages related to ACPI hardware: 67 acpi.debug_layer=0x2 acpi.debug_level=0xffffffff 68 69 Some values produce so much output that the system is 70 unusable. The "log_buf_len" parameter may be useful 71 if you need to capture more output. 72 73 acpi_enforce_resources= [ACPI] 74 { strict | lax | no } 75 Check for resource conflicts between native drivers 76 and ACPI OperationRegions (SystemIO and SystemMemory 77 only). IO ports and memory declared in ACPI might be 78 used by the ACPI subsystem in arbitrary AML code and 79 can interfere with legacy drivers. 80 strict (default): access to resources claimed by ACPI 81 is denied; legacy drivers trying to access reserved 82 resources will fail to bind to device using them. 83 lax: access to resources claimed by ACPI is allowed; 84 legacy drivers trying to access reserved resources 85 will bind successfully but a warning message is logged. 86 no: ACPI OperationRegions are not marked as reserved, 87 no further checks are performed. 88 89 acpi_force_table_verification [HW,ACPI] 90 Enable table checksum verification during early stage. 91 By default, this is disabled due to x86 early mapping 92 size limitation. 93 94 acpi_irq_balance [HW,ACPI] 95 ACPI will balance active IRQs 96 default in APIC mode 97 98 acpi_irq_nobalance [HW,ACPI] 99 ACPI will not move active IRQs (default) 100 default in PIC mode 101 102 acpi_irq_isa= [HW,ACPI] If irq_balance, mark listed IRQs used by ISA 103 Format: <irq>,<irq>... 104 105 acpi_irq_pci= [HW,ACPI] If irq_balance, clear listed IRQs for 106 use by PCI 107 Format: <irq>,<irq>... 108 109 acpi_mask_gpe= [HW,ACPI] 110 Due to the existence of _Lxx/_Exx, some GPEs triggered 111 by unsupported hardware/firmware features can result in 112 GPE floodings that cannot be automatically disabled by 113 the GPE dispatcher. 114 This facility can be used to prevent such uncontrolled 115 GPE floodings. 116 Format: <int> 117 118 acpi_no_auto_serialize [HW,ACPI] 119 Disable auto-serialization of AML methods 120 AML control methods that contain the opcodes to create 121 named objects will be marked as "Serialized" by the 122 auto-serialization feature. 123 This feature is enabled by default. 124 This option allows to turn off the feature. 125 126 acpi_no_memhotplug [ACPI] Disable memory hotplug. Useful for kdump 127 kernels. 128 129 acpi_no_static_ssdt [HW,ACPI] 130 Disable installation of static SSDTs at early boot time 131 By default, SSDTs contained in the RSDT/XSDT will be 132 installed automatically and they will appear under 133 /sys/firmware/acpi/tables. 134 This option turns off this feature. 135 Note that specifying this option does not affect 136 dynamic table installation which will install SSDT 137 tables to /sys/firmware/acpi/tables/dynamic. 138 139 acpi_rsdp= [ACPI,EFI,KEXEC] 140 Pass the RSDP address to the kernel, mostly used 141 on machines running EFI runtime service to boot the 142 second kernel for kdump. 143 144 acpi_os_name= [HW,ACPI] Tell ACPI BIOS the name of the OS 145 Format: To spoof as Windows 98: ="Microsoft Windows" 146 147 acpi_rev_override [ACPI] Override the _REV object to return 5 (instead 148 of 2 which is mandated by ACPI 6) as the supported ACPI 149 specification revision (when using this switch, it may 150 be necessary to carry out a cold reboot _twice_ in a 151 row to make it take effect on the platform firmware). 152 153 acpi_osi= [HW,ACPI] Modify list of supported OS interface strings 154 acpi_osi="string1" # add string1 155 acpi_osi="!string2" # remove string2 156 acpi_osi=!* # remove all strings 157 acpi_osi=! # disable all built-in OS vendor 158 strings 159 acpi_osi=!! # enable all built-in OS vendor 160 strings 161 acpi_osi= # disable all strings 162 163 'acpi_osi=!' can be used in combination with single or 164 multiple 'acpi_osi="string1"' to support specific OS 165 vendor string(s). Note that such command can only 166 affect the default state of the OS vendor strings, thus 167 it cannot affect the default state of the feature group 168 strings and the current state of the OS vendor strings, 169 specifying it multiple times through kernel command line 170 is meaningless. This command is useful when one do not 171 care about the state of the feature group strings which 172 should be controlled by the OSPM. 173 Examples: 174 1. 'acpi_osi=! acpi_osi="Windows 2000"' is equivalent 175 to 'acpi_osi="Windows 2000" acpi_osi=!', they all 176 can make '_OSI("Windows 2000")' TRUE. 177 178 'acpi_osi=' cannot be used in combination with other 179 'acpi_osi=' command lines, the _OSI method will not 180 exist in the ACPI namespace. NOTE that such command can 181 only affect the _OSI support state, thus specifying it 182 multiple times through kernel command line is also 183 meaningless. 184 Examples: 185 1. 'acpi_osi=' can make 'CondRefOf(_OSI, Local1)' 186 FALSE. 187 188 'acpi_osi=!*' can be used in combination with single or 189 multiple 'acpi_osi="string1"' to support specific 190 string(s). Note that such command can affect the 191 current state of both the OS vendor strings and the 192 feature group strings, thus specifying it multiple times 193 through kernel command line is meaningful. But it may 194 still not able to affect the final state of a string if 195 there are quirks related to this string. This command 196 is useful when one want to control the state of the 197 feature group strings to debug BIOS issues related to 198 the OSPM features. 199 Examples: 200 1. 'acpi_osi="Module Device" acpi_osi=!*' can make 201 '_OSI("Module Device")' FALSE. 202 2. 'acpi_osi=!* acpi_osi="Module Device"' can make 203 '_OSI("Module Device")' TRUE. 204 3. 'acpi_osi=! acpi_osi=!* acpi_osi="Windows 2000"' is 205 equivalent to 206 'acpi_osi=!* acpi_osi=! acpi_osi="Windows 2000"' 207 and 208 'acpi_osi=!* acpi_osi="Windows 2000" acpi_osi=!', 209 they all will make '_OSI("Windows 2000")' TRUE. 210 211 acpi_pm_good [X86] 212 Override the pmtimer bug detection: force the kernel 213 to assume that this machine's pmtimer latches its value 214 and always returns good values. 215 216 acpi_sci= [HW,ACPI] ACPI System Control Interrupt trigger mode 217 Format: { level | edge | high | low } 218 219 acpi_skip_timer_override [HW,ACPI] 220 Recognize and ignore IRQ0/pin2 Interrupt Override. 221 For broken nForce2 BIOS resulting in XT-PIC timer. 222 223 acpi_sleep= [HW,ACPI] Sleep options 224 Format: { s3_bios, s3_mode, s3_beep, s4_nohwsig, 225 old_ordering, nonvs, sci_force_enable, nobl } 226 See Documentation/power/video.txt for information on 227 s3_bios and s3_mode. 228 s3_beep is for debugging; it makes the PC's speaker beep 229 as soon as the kernel's real-mode entry point is called. 230 s4_nohwsig prevents ACPI hardware signature from being 231 used during resume from hibernation. 232 old_ordering causes the ACPI 1.0 ordering of the _PTS 233 control method, with respect to putting devices into 234 low power states, to be enforced (the ACPI 2.0 ordering 235 of _PTS is used by default). 236 nonvs prevents the kernel from saving/restoring the 237 ACPI NVS memory during suspend/hibernation and resume. 238 sci_force_enable causes the kernel to set SCI_EN directly 239 on resume from S1/S3 (which is against the ACPI spec, 240 but some broken systems don't work without it). 241 nobl causes the internal blacklist of systems known to 242 behave incorrectly in some ways with respect to system 243 suspend and resume to be ignored (use wisely). 244 245 acpi_use_timer_override [HW,ACPI] 246 Use timer override. For some broken Nvidia NF5 boards 247 that require a timer override, but don't have HPET 248 249 add_efi_memmap [EFI; X86] Include EFI memory map in 250 kernel's map of available physical RAM. 251 252 agp= [AGP] 253 { off | try_unsupported } 254 off: disable AGP support 255 try_unsupported: try to drive unsupported chipsets 256 (may crash computer or cause data corruption) 257 258 ALSA [HW,ALSA] 259 See Documentation/sound/alsa-configuration.rst 260 261 alignment= [KNL,ARM] 262 Allow the default userspace alignment fault handler 263 behaviour to be specified. Bit 0 enables warnings, 264 bit 1 enables fixups, and bit 2 sends a segfault. 265 266 align_va_addr= [X86-64] 267 Align virtual addresses by clearing slice [14:12] when 268 allocating a VMA at process creation time. This option 269 gives you up to 3% performance improvement on AMD F15h 270 machines (where it is enabled by default) for a 271 CPU-intensive style benchmark, and it can vary highly in 272 a microbenchmark depending on workload and compiler. 273 274 32: only for 32-bit processes 275 64: only for 64-bit processes 276 on: enable for both 32- and 64-bit processes 277 off: disable for both 32- and 64-bit processes 278 279 alloc_snapshot [FTRACE] 280 Allocate the ftrace snapshot buffer on boot up when the 281 main buffer is allocated. This is handy if debugging 282 and you need to use tracing_snapshot() on boot up, and 283 do not want to use tracing_snapshot_alloc() as it needs 284 to be done where GFP_KERNEL allocations are allowed. 285 286 amd_iommu= [HW,X86-64] 287 Pass parameters to the AMD IOMMU driver in the system. 288 Possible values are: 289 fullflush - enable flushing of IO/TLB entries when 290 they are unmapped. Otherwise they are 291 flushed before they will be reused, which 292 is a lot of faster 293 off - do not initialize any AMD IOMMU found in 294 the system 295 force_isolation - Force device isolation for all 296 devices. The IOMMU driver is not 297 allowed anymore to lift isolation 298 requirements as needed. This option 299 does not override iommu=pt 300 301 amd_iommu_dump= [HW,X86-64] 302 Enable AMD IOMMU driver option to dump the ACPI table 303 for AMD IOMMU. With this option enabled, AMD IOMMU 304 driver will print ACPI tables for AMD IOMMU during 305 IOMMU initialization. 306 307 amd_iommu_intr= [HW,X86-64] 308 Specifies one of the following AMD IOMMU interrupt 309 remapping modes: 310 legacy - Use legacy interrupt remapping mode. 311 vapic - Use virtual APIC mode, which allows IOMMU 312 to inject interrupts directly into guest. 313 This mode requires kvm-amd.avic=1. 314 (Default when IOMMU HW support is present.) 315 316 amijoy.map= [HW,JOY] Amiga joystick support 317 Map of devices attached to JOY0DAT and JOY1DAT 318 Format: <a>,<b> 319 See also Documentation/input/joydev/joystick.rst 320 321 analog.map= [HW,JOY] Analog joystick and gamepad support 322 Specifies type or capabilities of an analog joystick 323 connected to one of 16 gameports 324 Format: <type1>,<type2>,..<type16> 325 326 apc= [HW,SPARC] 327 Power management functions (SPARCstation-4/5 + deriv.) 328 Format: noidle 329 Disable APC CPU standby support. SPARCstation-Fox does 330 not play well with APC CPU idle - disable it if you have 331 APC and your system crashes randomly. 332 333 apic= [APIC,X86] Advanced Programmable Interrupt Controller 334 Change the output verbosity whilst booting 335 Format: { quiet (default) | verbose | debug } 336 Change the amount of debugging information output 337 when initialising the APIC and IO-APIC components. 338 For X86-32, this can also be used to specify an APIC 339 driver name. 340 Format: apic=driver_name 341 Examples: apic=bigsmp 342 343 apic_extnmi= [APIC,X86] External NMI delivery setting 344 Format: { bsp (default) | all | none } 345 bsp: External NMI is delivered only to CPU 0 346 all: External NMIs are broadcast to all CPUs as a 347 backup of CPU 0 348 none: External NMI is masked for all CPUs. This is 349 useful so that a dump capture kernel won't be 350 shot down by NMI 351 352 autoconf= [IPV6] 353 See Documentation/networking/ipv6.txt. 354 355 show_lapic= [APIC,X86] Advanced Programmable Interrupt Controller 356 Limit apic dumping. The parameter defines the maximal 357 number of local apics being dumped. Also it is possible 358 to set it to "all" by meaning -- no limit here. 359 Format: { 1 (default) | 2 | ... | all }. 360 The parameter valid if only apic=debug or 361 apic=verbose is specified. 362 Example: apic=debug show_lapic=all 363 364 apm= [APM] Advanced Power Management 365 See header of arch/x86/kernel/apm_32.c. 366 367 arcrimi= [HW,NET] ARCnet - "RIM I" (entirely mem-mapped) cards 368 Format: <io>,<irq>,<nodeID> 369 370 ataflop= [HW,M68k] 371 372 atarimouse= [HW,MOUSE] Atari Mouse 373 374 atkbd.extra= [HW] Enable extra LEDs and keys on IBM RapidAccess, 375 EzKey and similar keyboards 376 377 atkbd.reset= [HW] Reset keyboard during initialization 378 379 atkbd.set= [HW] Select keyboard code set 380 Format: <int> (2 = AT (default), 3 = PS/2) 381 382 atkbd.scroll= [HW] Enable scroll wheel on MS Office and similar 383 keyboards 384 385 atkbd.softraw= [HW] Choose between synthetic and real raw mode 386 Format: <bool> (0 = real, 1 = synthetic (default)) 387 388 atkbd.softrepeat= [HW] 389 Use software keyboard repeat 390 391 audit= [KNL] Enable the audit sub-system 392 Format: { "0" | "1" | "off" | "on" } 393 0 | off - kernel audit is disabled and can not be 394 enabled until the next reboot 395 unset - kernel audit is initialized but disabled and 396 will be fully enabled by the userspace auditd. 397 1 | on - kernel audit is initialized and partially 398 enabled, storing at most audit_backlog_limit 399 messages in RAM until it is fully enabled by the 400 userspace auditd. 401 Default: unset 402 403 audit_backlog_limit= [KNL] Set the audit queue size limit. 404 Format: <int> (must be >=0) 405 Default: 64 406 407 bau= [X86_UV] Enable the BAU on SGI UV. The default 408 behavior is to disable the BAU (i.e. bau=0). 409 Format: { "0" | "1" } 410 0 - Disable the BAU. 411 1 - Enable the BAU. 412 unset - Disable the BAU. 413 414 baycom_epp= [HW,AX25] 415 Format: <io>,<mode> 416 417 baycom_par= [HW,AX25] BayCom Parallel Port AX.25 Modem 418 Format: <io>,<mode> 419 See header of drivers/net/hamradio/baycom_par.c. 420 421 baycom_ser_fdx= [HW,AX25] 422 BayCom Serial Port AX.25 Modem (Full Duplex Mode) 423 Format: <io>,<irq>,<mode>[,<baud>] 424 See header of drivers/net/hamradio/baycom_ser_fdx.c. 425 426 baycom_ser_hdx= [HW,AX25] 427 BayCom Serial Port AX.25 Modem (Half Duplex Mode) 428 Format: <io>,<irq>,<mode> 429 See header of drivers/net/hamradio/baycom_ser_hdx.c. 430 431 blkdevparts= Manual partition parsing of block device(s) for 432 embedded devices based on command line input. 433 See Documentation/block/cmdline-partition.txt 434 435 boot_delay= Milliseconds to delay each printk during boot. 436 Values larger than 10 seconds (10000) are changed to 437 no delay (0). 438 Format: integer 439 440 bootmem_debug [KNL] Enable bootmem allocator debug messages. 441 442 bert_disable [ACPI] 443 Disable BERT OS support on buggy BIOSes. 444 445 bttv.card= [HW,V4L] bttv (bt848 + bt878 based grabber cards) 446 bttv.radio= Most important insmod options are available as 447 kernel args too. 448 bttv.pll= See Documentation/media/v4l-drivers/bttv.rst 449 bttv.tuner= 450 451 bulk_remove=off [PPC] This parameter disables the use of the pSeries 452 firmware feature for flushing multiple hpte entries 453 at a time. 454 455 c101= [NET] Moxa C101 synchronous serial card 456 457 cachesize= [BUGS=X86-32] Override level 2 CPU cache size detection. 458 Sometimes CPU hardware bugs make them report the cache 459 size incorrectly. The kernel will attempt work arounds 460 to fix known problems, but for some CPUs it is not 461 possible to determine what the correct size should be. 462 This option provides an override for these situations. 463 464 ca_keys= [KEYS] This parameter identifies a specific key(s) on 465 the system trusted keyring to be used for certificate 466 trust validation. 467 format: { id:<keyid> | builtin } 468 469 cca= [MIPS] Override the kernel pages' cache coherency 470 algorithm. Accepted values range from 0 to 7 471 inclusive. See arch/mips/include/asm/pgtable-bits.h 472 for platform specific values (SB1, Loongson3 and 473 others). 474 475 ccw_timeout_log [S390] 476 See Documentation/s390/CommonIO for details. 477 478 cgroup_disable= [KNL] Disable a particular controller 479 Format: {name of the controller(s) to disable} 480 The effects of cgroup_disable=foo are: 481 - foo isn't auto-mounted if you mount all cgroups in 482 a single hierarchy 483 - foo isn't visible as an individually mountable 484 subsystem 485 {Currently only "memory" controller deal with this and 486 cut the overhead, others just disable the usage. So 487 only cgroup_disable=memory is actually worthy} 488 489 cgroup_no_v1= [KNL] Disable one, multiple, all cgroup controllers in v1 490 Format: { controller[,controller...] | "all" } 491 Like cgroup_disable, but only applies to cgroup v1; 492 the blacklisted controllers remain available in cgroup2. 493 494 cgroup.memory= [KNL] Pass options to the cgroup memory controller. 495 Format: <string> 496 nosocket -- Disable socket memory accounting. 497 nokmem -- Disable kernel memory accounting. 498 499 checkreqprot [SELINUX] Set initial checkreqprot flag value. 500 Format: { "0" | "1" } 501 See security/selinux/Kconfig help text. 502 0 -- check protection applied by kernel (includes 503 any implied execute protection). 504 1 -- check protection requested by application. 505 Default value is set via a kernel config option. 506 Value can be changed at runtime via 507 /selinux/checkreqprot. 508 509 cio_ignore= [S390] 510 See Documentation/s390/CommonIO for details. 511 clk_ignore_unused 512 [CLK] 513 Prevents the clock framework from automatically gating 514 clocks that have not been explicitly enabled by a Linux 515 device driver but are enabled in hardware at reset or 516 by the bootloader/firmware. Note that this does not 517 force such clocks to be always-on nor does it reserve 518 those clocks in any way. This parameter is useful for 519 debug and development, but should not be needed on a 520 platform with proper driver support. For more 521 information, see Documentation/driver-api/clk.rst. 522 523 clock= [BUGS=X86-32, HW] gettimeofday clocksource override. 524 [Deprecated] 525 Forces specified clocksource (if available) to be used 526 when calculating gettimeofday(). If specified 527 clocksource is not available, it defaults to PIT. 528 Format: { pit | tsc | cyclone | pmtmr } 529 530 clocksource= Override the default clocksource 531 Format: <string> 532 Override the default clocksource and use the clocksource 533 with the name specified. 534 Some clocksource names to choose from, depending on 535 the platform: 536 [all] jiffies (this is the base, fallback clocksource) 537 [ACPI] acpi_pm 538 [ARM] imx_timer1,OSTS,netx_timer,mpu_timer2, 539 pxa_timer,timer3,32k_counter,timer0_1 540 [X86-32] pit,hpet,tsc; 541 scx200_hrt on Geode; cyclone on IBM x440 542 [MIPS] MIPS 543 [PARISC] cr16 544 [S390] tod 545 [SH] SuperH 546 [SPARC64] tick 547 [X86-64] hpet,tsc 548 549 clocksource.arm_arch_timer.evtstrm= 550 [ARM,ARM64] 551 Format: <bool> 552 Enable/disable the eventstream feature of the ARM 553 architected timer so that code using WFE-based polling 554 loops can be debugged more effectively on production 555 systems. 556 557 clearcpuid=BITNUM [X86] 558 Disable CPUID feature X for the kernel. See 559 arch/x86/include/asm/cpufeatures.h for the valid bit 560 numbers. Note the Linux specific bits are not necessarily 561 stable over kernel options, but the vendor specific 562 ones should be. 563 Also note that user programs calling CPUID directly 564 or using the feature without checking anything 565 will still see it. This just prevents it from 566 being used by the kernel or shown in /proc/cpuinfo. 567 Also note the kernel might malfunction if you disable 568 some critical bits. 569 570 cma=nn[MG]@[start[MG][-end[MG]]] 571 [ARM,X86,KNL] 572 Sets the size of kernel global memory area for 573 contiguous memory allocations and optionally the 574 placement constraint by the physical address range of 575 memory allocations. A value of 0 disables CMA 576 altogether. For more information, see 577 include/linux/dma-contiguous.h 578 579 cmo_free_hint= [PPC] Format: { yes | no } 580 Specify whether pages are marked as being inactive 581 when they are freed. This is used in CMO environments 582 to determine OS memory pressure for page stealing by 583 a hypervisor. 584 Default: yes 585 586 coherent_pool=nn[KMG] [ARM,KNL] 587 Sets the size of memory pool for coherent, atomic dma 588 allocations, by default set to 256K. 589 590 com20020= [HW,NET] ARCnet - COM20020 chipset 591 Format: 592 <io>[,<irq>[,<nodeID>[,<backplane>[,<ckp>[,<timeout>]]]]] 593 594 com90io= [HW,NET] ARCnet - COM90xx chipset (IO-mapped buffers) 595 Format: <io>[,<irq>] 596 597 com90xx= [HW,NET] 598 ARCnet - COM90xx chipset (memory-mapped buffers) 599 Format: <io>[,<irq>[,<memstart>]] 600 601 condev= [HW,S390] console device 602 conmode= 603 604 console= [KNL] Output console device and options. 605 606 tty<n> Use the virtual console device <n>. 607 608 ttyS<n>[,options] 609 ttyUSB0[,options] 610 Use the specified serial port. The options are of 611 the form "bbbbpnf", where "bbbb" is the baud rate, 612 "p" is parity ("n", "o", or "e"), "n" is number of 613 bits, and "f" is flow control ("r" for RTS or 614 omit it). Default is "9600n8". 615 616 See Documentation/admin-guide/serial-console.rst for more 617 information. See 618 Documentation/networking/netconsole.txt for an 619 alternative. 620 621 uart[8250],io,<addr>[,options] 622 uart[8250],mmio,<addr>[,options] 623 uart[8250],mmio16,<addr>[,options] 624 uart[8250],mmio32,<addr>[,options] 625 uart[8250],0x<addr>[,options] 626 Start an early, polled-mode console on the 8250/16550 627 UART at the specified I/O port or MMIO address, 628 switching to the matching ttyS device later. 629 MMIO inter-register address stride is either 8-bit 630 (mmio), 16-bit (mmio16), or 32-bit (mmio32). 631 If none of [io|mmio|mmio16|mmio32], <addr> is assumed 632 to be equivalent to 'mmio'. 'options' are specified in 633 the same format described for ttyS above; if unspecified, 634 the h/w is not re-initialized. 635 636 hvc<n> Use the hypervisor console device <n>. This is for 637 both Xen and PowerPC hypervisors. 638 639 If the device connected to the port is not a TTY but a braille 640 device, prepend "brl," before the device type, for instance 641 console=brl,ttyS0 642 For now, only VisioBraille is supported. 643 644 console_msg_format= 645 [KNL] Change console messages format 646 default 647 By default we print messages on consoles in 648 "[time stamp] text\n" format (time stamp may not be 649 printed, depending on CONFIG_PRINTK_TIME or 650 `printk_time' param). 651 syslog 652 Switch to syslog format: "<%u>[time stamp] text\n" 653 IOW, each message will have a facility and loglevel 654 prefix. The format is similar to one used by syslog() 655 syscall, or to executing "dmesg -S --raw" or to reading 656 from /proc/kmsg. 657 658 consoleblank= [KNL] The console blank (screen saver) timeout in 659 seconds. A value of 0 disables the blank timer. 660 Defaults to 0. 661 662 coredump_filter= 663 [KNL] Change the default value for 664 /proc/<pid>/coredump_filter. 665 See also Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt. 666 667 coresight_cpu_debug.enable 668 [ARM,ARM64] 669 Format: <bool> 670 Enable/disable the CPU sampling based debugging. 671 0: default value, disable debugging 672 1: enable debugging at boot time 673 674 cpuidle.off=1 [CPU_IDLE] 675 disable the cpuidle sub-system 676 677 cpufreq.off=1 [CPU_FREQ] 678 disable the cpufreq sub-system 679 680 cpu_init_udelay=N 681 [X86] Delay for N microsec between assert and de-assert 682 of APIC INIT to start processors. This delay occurs 683 on every CPU online, such as boot, and resume from suspend. 684 Default: 10000 685 686 cpcihp_generic= [HW,PCI] Generic port I/O CompactPCI driver 687 Format: 688 <first_slot>,<last_slot>,<port>,<enum_bit>[,<debug>] 689 690 crashkernel=size[KMG][@offset[KMG]] 691 [KNL] Using kexec, Linux can switch to a 'crash kernel' 692 upon panic. This parameter reserves the physical 693 memory region [offset, offset + size] for that kernel 694 image. If '@offset' is omitted, then a suitable offset 695 is selected automatically. Check 696 Documentation/kdump/kdump.txt for further details. 697 698 crashkernel=range1:size1[,range2:size2,...][@offset] 699 [KNL] Same as above, but depends on the memory 700 in the running system. The syntax of range is 701 start-[end] where start and end are both 702 a memory unit (amount[KMG]). See also 703 Documentation/kdump/kdump.txt for an example. 704 705 crashkernel=size[KMG],high 706 [KNL, x86_64] range could be above 4G. Allow kernel 707 to allocate physical memory region from top, so could 708 be above 4G if system have more than 4G ram installed. 709 Otherwise memory region will be allocated below 4G, if 710 available. 711 It will be ignored if crashkernel=X is specified. 712 crashkernel=size[KMG],low 713 [KNL, x86_64] range under 4G. When crashkernel=X,high 714 is passed, kernel could allocate physical memory region 715 above 4G, that cause second kernel crash on system 716 that require some amount of low memory, e.g. swiotlb 717 requires at least 64M+32K low memory, also enough extra 718 low memory is needed to make sure DMA buffers for 32-bit 719 devices won't run out. Kernel would try to allocate at 720 at least 256M below 4G automatically. 721 This one let user to specify own low range under 4G 722 for second kernel instead. 723 0: to disable low allocation. 724 It will be ignored when crashkernel=X,high is not used 725 or memory reserved is below 4G. 726 727 cryptomgr.notests 728 [KNL] Disable crypto self-tests 729 730 cs89x0_dma= [HW,NET] 731 Format: <dma> 732 733 cs89x0_media= [HW,NET] 734 Format: { rj45 | aui | bnc } 735 736 dasd= [HW,NET] 737 See header of drivers/s390/block/dasd_devmap.c. 738 739 db9.dev[2|3]= [HW,JOY] Multisystem joystick support via parallel port 740 (one device per port) 741 Format: <port#>,<type> 742 See also Documentation/input/devices/joystick-parport.rst 743 744 ddebug_query= [KNL,DYNAMIC_DEBUG] Enable debug messages at early boot 745 time. See 746 Documentation/admin-guide/dynamic-debug-howto.rst for 747 details. Deprecated, see dyndbg. 748 749 debug [KNL] Enable kernel debugging (events log level). 750 751 debug_boot_weak_hash 752 [KNL] Enable printing [hashed] pointers early in the 753 boot sequence. If enabled, we use a weak hash instead 754 of siphash to hash pointers. Use this option if you are 755 seeing instances of '(___ptrval___)') and need to see a 756 value (hashed pointer) instead. Cryptographically 757 insecure, please do not use on production kernels. 758 759 debug_locks_verbose= 760 [KNL] verbose self-tests 761 Format=<0|1> 762 Print debugging info while doing the locking API 763 self-tests. 764 We default to 0 (no extra messages), setting it to 765 1 will print _a lot_ more information - normally 766 only useful to kernel developers. 767 768 debug_objects [KNL] Enable object debugging 769 770 no_debug_objects 771 [KNL] Disable object debugging 772 773 debug_guardpage_minorder= 774 [KNL] When CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC is set, this 775 parameter allows control of the order of pages that will 776 be intentionally kept free (and hence protected) by the 777 buddy allocator. Bigger value increase the probability 778 of catching random memory corruption, but reduce the 779 amount of memory for normal system use. The maximum 780 possible value is MAX_ORDER/2. Setting this parameter 781 to 1 or 2 should be enough to identify most random 782 memory corruption problems caused by bugs in kernel or 783 driver code when a CPU writes to (or reads from) a 784 random memory location. Note that there exists a class 785 of memory corruptions problems caused by buggy H/W or 786 F/W or by drivers badly programing DMA (basically when 787 memory is written at bus level and the CPU MMU is 788 bypassed) which are not detectable by 789 CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC, hence this option will not help 790 tracking down these problems. 791 792 debug_pagealloc= 793 [KNL] When CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC is set, this 794 parameter enables the feature at boot time. In 795 default, it is disabled. We can avoid allocating huge 796 chunk of memory for debug pagealloc if we don't enable 797 it at boot time and the system will work mostly same 798 with the kernel built without CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC. 799 on: enable the feature 800 801 debugpat [X86] Enable PAT debugging 802 803 decnet.addr= [HW,NET] 804 Format: <area>[,<node>] 805 See also Documentation/networking/decnet.txt. 806 807 default_hugepagesz= 808 [same as hugepagesz=] The size of the default 809 HugeTLB page size. This is the size represented by 810 the legacy /proc/ hugepages APIs, used for SHM, and 811 default size when mounting hugetlbfs filesystems. 812 Defaults to the default architecture's huge page size 813 if not specified. 814 815 deferred_probe_timeout= 816 [KNL] Debugging option to set a timeout in seconds for 817 deferred probe to give up waiting on dependencies to 818 probe. Only specific dependencies (subsystems or 819 drivers) that have opted in will be ignored. A timeout of 0 820 will timeout at the end of initcalls. This option will also 821 dump out devices still on the deferred probe list after 822 retrying. 823 824 dhash_entries= [KNL] 825 Set number of hash buckets for dentry cache. 826 827 disable_1tb_segments [PPC] 828 Disables the use of 1TB hash page table segments. This 829 causes the kernel to fall back to 256MB segments which 830 can be useful when debugging issues that require an SLB 831 miss to occur. 832 833 disable= [IPV6] 834 See Documentation/networking/ipv6.txt. 835 836 hardened_usercopy= 837 [KNL] Under CONFIG_HARDENED_USERCOPY, whether 838 hardening is enabled for this boot. Hardened 839 usercopy checking is used to protect the kernel 840 from reading or writing beyond known memory 841 allocation boundaries as a proactive defense 842 against bounds-checking flaws in the kernel's 843 copy_to_user()/copy_from_user() interface. 844 on Perform hardened usercopy checks (default). 845 off Disable hardened usercopy checks. 846 847 disable_radix [PPC] 848 Disable RADIX MMU mode on POWER9 849 850 disable_cpu_apicid= [X86,APIC,SMP] 851 Format: <int> 852 The number of initial APIC ID for the 853 corresponding CPU to be disabled at boot, 854 mostly used for the kdump 2nd kernel to 855 disable BSP to wake up multiple CPUs without 856 causing system reset or hang due to sending 857 INIT from AP to BSP. 858 859 disable_counter_freezing [HW] 860 Disable Intel PMU counter freezing feature. 861 The feature only exists starting from 862 Arch Perfmon v4 (Skylake and newer). 863 864 disable_ddw [PPC/PSERIES] 865 Disable Dynamic DMA Window support. Use this if 866 to workaround buggy firmware. 867 868 disable_ipv6= [IPV6] 869 See Documentation/networking/ipv6.txt. 870 871 disable_mtrr_cleanup [X86] 872 The kernel tries to adjust MTRR layout from continuous 873 to discrete, to make X server driver able to add WB 874 entry later. This parameter disables that. 875 876 disable_mtrr_trim [X86, Intel and AMD only] 877 By default the kernel will trim any uncacheable 878 memory out of your available memory pool based on 879 MTRR settings. This parameter disables that behavior, 880 possibly causing your machine to run very slowly. 881 882 disable_timer_pin_1 [X86] 883 Disable PIN 1 of APIC timer 884 Can be useful to work around chipset bugs. 885 886 dis_ucode_ldr [X86] Disable the microcode loader. 887 888 dma_debug=off If the kernel is compiled with DMA_API_DEBUG support, 889 this option disables the debugging code at boot. 890 891 dma_debug_entries=<number> 892 This option allows to tune the number of preallocated 893 entries for DMA-API debugging code. One entry is 894 required per DMA-API allocation. Use this if the 895 DMA-API debugging code disables itself because the 896 architectural default is too low. 897 898 dma_debug_driver=<driver_name> 899 With this option the DMA-API debugging driver 900 filter feature can be enabled at boot time. Just 901 pass the driver to filter for as the parameter. 902 The filter can be disabled or changed to another 903 driver later using sysfs. 904 905 drm.edid_firmware=[<connector>:]<file>[,[<connector>:]<file>] 906 Broken monitors, graphic adapters, KVMs and EDIDless 907 panels may send no or incorrect EDID data sets. 908 This parameter allows to specify an EDID data sets 909 in the /lib/firmware directory that are used instead. 910 Generic built-in EDID data sets are used, if one of 911 edid/1024x768.bin, edid/1280x1024.bin, 912 edid/1680x1050.bin, or edid/1920x1080.bin is given 913 and no file with the same name exists. Details and 914 instructions how to build your own EDID data are 915 available in Documentation/EDID/HOWTO.txt. An EDID 916 data set will only be used for a particular connector, 917 if its name and a colon are prepended to the EDID 918 name. Each connector may use a unique EDID data 919 set by separating the files with a comma. An EDID 920 data set with no connector name will be used for 921 any connectors not explicitly specified. 922 923 dscc4.setup= [NET] 924 925 dt_cpu_ftrs= [PPC] 926 Format: {"off" | "known"} 927 Control how the dt_cpu_ftrs device-tree binding is 928 used for CPU feature discovery and setup (if it 929 exists). 930 off: Do not use it, fall back to legacy cpu table. 931 known: Do not pass through unknown features to guests 932 or userspace, only those that the kernel is aware of. 933 934 dump_apple_properties [X86] 935 Dump name and content of EFI device properties on 936 x86 Macs. Useful for driver authors to determine 937 what data is available or for reverse-engineering. 938 939 dyndbg[="val"] [KNL,DYNAMIC_DEBUG] 940 module.dyndbg[="val"] 941 Enable debug messages at boot time. See 942 Documentation/admin-guide/dynamic-debug-howto.rst 943 for details. 944 945 nompx [X86] Disables Intel Memory Protection Extensions. 946 See Documentation/x86/intel_mpx.txt for more 947 information about the feature. 948 949 nopku [X86] Disable Memory Protection Keys CPU feature found 950 in some Intel CPUs. 951 952 module.async_probe [KNL] 953 Enable asynchronous probe on this module. 954 955 early_ioremap_debug [KNL] 956 Enable debug messages in early_ioremap support. This 957 is useful for tracking down temporary early mappings 958 which are not unmapped. 959 960 earlycon= [KNL] Output early console device and options. 961 962 [ARM64] The early console is determined by the 963 stdout-path property in device tree's chosen node, 964 or determined by the ACPI SPCR table. 965 966 [X86] When used with no options the early console is 967 determined by the ACPI SPCR table. 968 969 cdns,<addr>[,options] 970 Start an early, polled-mode console on a Cadence 971 (xuartps) serial port at the specified address. Only 972 supported option is baud rate. If baud rate is not 973 specified, the serial port must already be setup and 974 configured. 975 976 uart[8250],io,<addr>[,options] 977 uart[8250],mmio,<addr>[,options] 978 uart[8250],mmio32,<addr>[,options] 979 uart[8250],mmio32be,<addr>[,options] 980 uart[8250],0x<addr>[,options] 981 Start an early, polled-mode console on the 8250/16550 982 UART at the specified I/O port or MMIO address. 983 MMIO inter-register address stride is either 8-bit 984 (mmio) or 32-bit (mmio32 or mmio32be). 985 If none of [io|mmio|mmio32|mmio32be], <addr> is assumed 986 to be equivalent to 'mmio'. 'options' are specified 987 in the same format described for "console=ttyS<n>"; if 988 unspecified, the h/w is not initialized. 989 990 pl011,<addr> 991 pl011,mmio32,<addr> 992 Start an early, polled-mode console on a pl011 serial 993 port at the specified address. The pl011 serial port 994 must already be setup and configured. Options are not 995 yet supported. If 'mmio32' is specified, then only 996 the driver will use only 32-bit accessors to read/write 997 the device registers. 998 999 meson,<addr> 1000 Start an early, polled-mode console on a meson serial 1001 port at the specified address. The serial port must 1002 already be setup and configured. Options are not yet 1003 supported. 1004 1005 msm_serial,<addr> 1006 Start an early, polled-mode console on an msm serial 1007 port at the specified address. The serial port 1008 must already be setup and configured. Options are not 1009 yet supported. 1010 1011 msm_serial_dm,<addr> 1012 Start an early, polled-mode console on an msm serial 1013 dm port at the specified address. The serial port 1014 must already be setup and configured. Options are not 1015 yet supported. 1016 1017 owl,<addr> 1018 Start an early, polled-mode console on a serial port 1019 of an Actions Semi SoC, such as S500 or S900, at the 1020 specified address. The serial port must already be 1021 setup and configured. Options are not yet supported. 1022 1023 smh Use ARM semihosting calls for early console. 1024 1025 s3c2410,<addr> 1026 s3c2412,<addr> 1027 s3c2440,<addr> 1028 s3c6400,<addr> 1029 s5pv210,<addr> 1030 exynos4210,<addr> 1031 Use early console provided by serial driver available 1032 on Samsung SoCs, requires selecting proper type and 1033 a correct base address of the selected UART port. The 1034 serial port must already be setup and configured. 1035 Options are not yet supported. 1036 1037 lantiq,<addr> 1038 Start an early, polled-mode console on a lantiq serial 1039 (lqasc) port at the specified address. The serial port 1040 must already be setup and configured. Options are not 1041 yet supported. 1042 1043 lpuart,<addr> 1044 lpuart32,<addr> 1045 Use early console provided by Freescale LP UART driver 1046 found on Freescale Vybrid and QorIQ LS1021A processors. 1047 A valid base address must be provided, and the serial 1048 port must already be setup and configured. 1049 1050 ar3700_uart,<addr> 1051 Start an early, polled-mode console on the 1052 Armada 3700 serial port at the specified 1053 address. The serial port must already be setup 1054 and configured. Options are not yet supported. 1055 1056 qcom_geni,<addr> 1057 Start an early, polled-mode console on a Qualcomm 1058 Generic Interface (GENI) based serial port at the 1059 specified address. The serial port must already be 1060 setup and configured. Options are not yet supported. 1061 1062 earlyprintk= [X86,SH,ARM,M68k,S390] 1063 earlyprintk=vga 1064 earlyprintk=efi 1065 earlyprintk=sclp 1066 earlyprintk=xen 1067 earlyprintk=serial[,ttySn[,baudrate]] 1068 earlyprintk=serial[,0x...[,baudrate]] 1069 earlyprintk=ttySn[,baudrate] 1070 earlyprintk=dbgp[debugController#] 1071 earlyprintk=pciserial,bus:device.function[,baudrate] 1072 earlyprintk=xdbc[xhciController#] 1073 1074 earlyprintk is useful when the kernel crashes before 1075 the normal console is initialized. It is not enabled by 1076 default because it has some cosmetic problems. 1077 1078 Append ",keep" to not disable it when the real console 1079 takes over. 1080 1081 Only one of vga, efi, serial, or usb debug port can 1082 be used at a time. 1083 1084 Currently only ttyS0 and ttyS1 may be specified by 1085 name. Other I/O ports may be explicitly specified 1086 on some architectures (x86 and arm at least) by 1087 replacing ttySn with an I/O port address, like this: 1088 earlyprintk=serial,0x1008,115200 1089 You can find the port for a given device in 1090 /proc/tty/driver/serial: 1091 2: uart:ST16650V2 port:00001008 irq:18 ... 1092 1093 Interaction with the standard serial driver is not 1094 very good. 1095 1096 The VGA and EFI output is eventually overwritten by 1097 the real console. 1098 1099 The xen output can only be used by Xen PV guests. 1100 1101 The sclp output can only be used on s390. 1102 1103 edac_report= [HW,EDAC] Control how to report EDAC event 1104 Format: {"on" | "off" | "force"} 1105 on: enable EDAC to report H/W event. May be overridden 1106 by other higher priority error reporting module. 1107 off: disable H/W event reporting through EDAC. 1108 force: enforce the use of EDAC to report H/W event. 1109 default: on. 1110 1111 ekgdboc= [X86,KGDB] Allow early kernel console debugging 1112 ekgdboc=kbd 1113 1114 This is designed to be used in conjunction with 1115 the boot argument: earlyprintk=vga 1116 1117 edd= [EDD] 1118 Format: {"off" | "on" | "skip[mbr]"} 1119 1120 efi= [EFI] 1121 Format: { "old_map", "nochunk", "noruntime", "debug" } 1122 old_map [X86-64]: switch to the old ioremap-based EFI 1123 runtime services mapping. 32-bit still uses this one by 1124 default. 1125 nochunk: disable reading files in "chunks" in the EFI 1126 boot stub, as chunking can cause problems with some 1127 firmware implementations. 1128 noruntime : disable EFI runtime services support 1129 debug: enable misc debug output 1130 1131 efi_no_storage_paranoia [EFI; X86] 1132 Using this parameter you can use more than 50% of 1133 your efi variable storage. Use this parameter only if 1134 you are really sure that your UEFI does sane gc and 1135 fulfills the spec otherwise your board may brick. 1136 1137 efi_fake_mem= nn[KMG]@ss[KMG]:aa[,nn[KMG]@ss[KMG]:aa,..] [EFI; X86] 1138 Add arbitrary attribute to specific memory range by 1139 updating original EFI memory map. 1140 Region of memory which aa attribute is added to is 1141 from ss to ss+nn. 1142 If efi_fake_mem=2G@4G:0x10000,2G@0x10a0000000:0x10000 1143 is specified, EFI_MEMORY_MORE_RELIABLE(0x10000) 1144 attribute is added to range 0x100000000-0x180000000 and 1145 0x10a0000000-0x1120000000. 1146 1147 Using this parameter you can do debugging of EFI memmap 1148 related feature. For example, you can do debugging of 1149 Address Range Mirroring feature even if your box 1150 doesn't support it. 1151 1152 efivar_ssdt= [EFI; X86] Name of an EFI variable that contains an SSDT 1153 that is to be dynamically loaded by Linux. If there are 1154 multiple variables with the same name but with different 1155 vendor GUIDs, all of them will be loaded. See 1156 Documentation/acpi/ssdt-overlays.txt for details. 1157 1158 1159 eisa_irq_edge= [PARISC,HW] 1160 See header of drivers/parisc/eisa.c. 1161 1162 elanfreq= [X86-32] 1163 See comment before function elanfreq_setup() in 1164 arch/x86/kernel/cpu/cpufreq/elanfreq.c. 1165 1166 elevator= [IOSCHED] 1167 Format: {"cfq" | "deadline" | "noop"} 1168 See Documentation/block/cfq-iosched.txt and 1169 Documentation/block/deadline-iosched.txt for details. 1170 1171 elfcorehdr=[size[KMG]@]offset[KMG] [IA64,PPC,SH,X86,S390] 1172 Specifies physical address of start of kernel core 1173 image elf header and optionally the size. Generally 1174 kexec loader will pass this option to capture kernel. 1175 See Documentation/kdump/kdump.txt for details. 1176 1177 enable_mtrr_cleanup [X86] 1178 The kernel tries to adjust MTRR layout from continuous 1179 to discrete, to make X server driver able to add WB 1180 entry later. This parameter enables that. 1181 1182 enable_timer_pin_1 [X86] 1183 Enable PIN 1 of APIC timer 1184 Can be useful to work around chipset bugs 1185 (in particular on some ATI chipsets). 1186 The kernel tries to set a reasonable default. 1187 1188 enforcing [SELINUX] Set initial enforcing status. 1189 Format: {"0" | "1"} 1190 See security/selinux/Kconfig help text. 1191 0 -- permissive (log only, no denials). 1192 1 -- enforcing (deny and log). 1193 Default value is 0. 1194 Value can be changed at runtime via /selinux/enforce. 1195 1196 erst_disable [ACPI] 1197 Disable Error Record Serialization Table (ERST) 1198 support. 1199 1200 ether= [HW,NET] Ethernet cards parameters 1201 This option is obsoleted by the "netdev=" option, which 1202 has equivalent usage. See its documentation for details. 1203 1204 evm= [EVM] 1205 Format: { "fix" } 1206 Permit 'security.evm' to be updated regardless of 1207 current integrity status. 1208 1209 failslab= 1210 fail_page_alloc= 1211 fail_make_request=[KNL] 1212 General fault injection mechanism. 1213 Format: <interval>,<probability>,<space>,<times> 1214 See also Documentation/fault-injection/. 1215 1216 floppy= [HW] 1217 See Documentation/blockdev/floppy.txt. 1218 1219 force_pal_cache_flush 1220 [IA-64] Avoid check_sal_cache_flush which may hang on 1221 buggy SAL_CACHE_FLUSH implementations. Using this 1222 parameter will force ia64_sal_cache_flush to call 1223 ia64_pal_cache_flush instead of SAL_CACHE_FLUSH. 1224 1225 forcepae [X86-32] 1226 Forcefully enable Physical Address Extension (PAE). 1227 Many Pentium M systems disable PAE but may have a 1228 functionally usable PAE implementation. 1229 Warning: use of this parameter will taint the kernel 1230 and may cause unknown problems. 1231 1232 ftrace=[tracer] 1233 [FTRACE] will set and start the specified tracer 1234 as early as possible in order to facilitate early 1235 boot debugging. 1236 1237 ftrace_dump_on_oops[=orig_cpu] 1238 [FTRACE] will dump the trace buffers on oops. 1239 If no parameter is passed, ftrace will dump 1240 buffers of all CPUs, but if you pass orig_cpu, it will 1241 dump only the buffer of the CPU that triggered the 1242 oops. 1243 1244 ftrace_filter=[function-list] 1245 [FTRACE] Limit the functions traced by the function 1246 tracer at boot up. function-list is a comma separated 1247 list of functions. This list can be changed at run 1248 time by the set_ftrace_filter file in the debugfs 1249 tracing directory. 1250 1251 ftrace_notrace=[function-list] 1252 [FTRACE] Do not trace the functions specified in 1253 function-list. This list can be changed at run time 1254 by the set_ftrace_notrace file in the debugfs 1255 tracing directory. 1256 1257 ftrace_graph_filter=[function-list] 1258 [FTRACE] Limit the top level callers functions traced 1259 by the function graph tracer at boot up. 1260 function-list is a comma separated list of functions 1261 that can be changed at run time by the 1262 set_graph_function file in the debugfs tracing directory. 1263 1264 ftrace_graph_notrace=[function-list] 1265 [FTRACE] Do not trace from the functions specified in 1266 function-list. This list is a comma separated list of 1267 functions that can be changed at run time by the 1268 set_graph_notrace file in the debugfs tracing directory. 1269 1270 ftrace_graph_max_depth=<uint> 1271 [FTRACE] Used with the function graph tracer. This is 1272 the max depth it will trace into a function. This value 1273 can be changed at run time by the max_graph_depth file 1274 in the tracefs tracing directory. default: 0 (no limit) 1275 1276 gamecon.map[2|3]= 1277 [HW,JOY] Multisystem joystick and NES/SNES/PSX pad 1278 support via parallel port (up to 5 devices per port) 1279 Format: <port#>,<pad1>,<pad2>,<pad3>,<pad4>,<pad5> 1280 See also Documentation/input/devices/joystick-parport.rst 1281 1282 gamma= [HW,DRM] 1283 1284 gart_fix_e820= [X86_64] disable the fix e820 for K8 GART 1285 Format: off | on 1286 default: on 1287 1288 gcov_persist= [GCOV] When non-zero (default), profiling data for 1289 kernel modules is saved and remains accessible via 1290 debugfs, even when the module is unloaded/reloaded. 1291 When zero, profiling data is discarded and associated 1292 debugfs files are removed at module unload time. 1293 1294 goldfish [X86] Enable the goldfish android emulator platform. 1295 Don't use this when you are not running on the 1296 android emulator 1297 1298 gpt [EFI] Forces disk with valid GPT signature but 1299 invalid Protective MBR to be treated as GPT. If the 1300 primary GPT is corrupted, it enables the backup/alternate 1301 GPT to be used instead. 1302 1303 grcan.enable0= [HW] Configuration of physical interface 0. Determines 1304 the "Enable 0" bit of the configuration register. 1305 Format: 0 | 1 1306 Default: 0 1307 grcan.enable1= [HW] Configuration of physical interface 1. Determines 1308 the "Enable 0" bit of the configuration register. 1309 Format: 0 | 1 1310 Default: 0 1311 grcan.select= [HW] Select which physical interface to use. 1312 Format: 0 | 1 1313 Default: 0 1314 grcan.txsize= [HW] Sets the size of the tx buffer. 1315 Format: <unsigned int> such that (txsize & ~0x1fffc0) == 0. 1316 Default: 1024 1317 grcan.rxsize= [HW] Sets the size of the rx buffer. 1318 Format: <unsigned int> such that (rxsize & ~0x1fffc0) == 0. 1319 Default: 1024 1320 1321 gpio-mockup.gpio_mockup_ranges 1322 [HW] Sets the ranges of gpiochip of for this device. 1323 Format: <start1>,<end1>,<start2>,<end2>... 1324 1325 hardlockup_all_cpu_backtrace= 1326 [KNL] Should the hard-lockup detector generate 1327 backtraces on all cpus. 1328 Format: <integer> 1329 1330 hashdist= [KNL,NUMA] Large hashes allocated during boot 1331 are distributed across NUMA nodes. Defaults on 1332 for 64-bit NUMA, off otherwise. 1333 Format: 0 | 1 (for off | on) 1334 1335 hcl= [IA-64] SGI's Hardware Graph compatibility layer 1336 1337 hd= [EIDE] (E)IDE hard drive subsystem geometry 1338 Format: <cyl>,<head>,<sect> 1339 1340 hest_disable [ACPI] 1341 Disable Hardware Error Source Table (HEST) support; 1342 corresponding firmware-first mode error processing 1343 logic will be disabled. 1344 1345 highmem=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT] forces the highmem zone to have an exact 1346 size of <nn>. This works even on boxes that have no 1347 highmem otherwise. This also works to reduce highmem 1348 size on bigger boxes. 1349 1350 highres= [KNL] Enable/disable high resolution timer mode. 1351 Valid parameters: "on", "off" 1352 Default: "on" 1353 1354 hisax= [HW,ISDN] 1355 See Documentation/isdn/README.HiSax. 1356 1357 hlt [BUGS=ARM,SH] 1358 1359 hpet= [X86-32,HPET] option to control HPET usage 1360 Format: { enable (default) | disable | force | 1361 verbose } 1362 disable: disable HPET and use PIT instead 1363 force: allow force enabled of undocumented chips (ICH4, 1364 VIA, nVidia) 1365 verbose: show contents of HPET registers during setup 1366 1367 hpet_mmap= [X86, HPET_MMAP] Allow userspace to mmap HPET 1368 registers. Default set by CONFIG_HPET_MMAP_DEFAULT. 1369 1370 hugepages= [HW,X86-32,IA-64] HugeTLB pages to allocate at boot. 1371 hugepagesz= [HW,IA-64,PPC,X86-64] The size of the HugeTLB pages. 1372 On x86-64 and powerpc, this option can be specified 1373 multiple times interleaved with hugepages= to reserve 1374 huge pages of different sizes. Valid pages sizes on 1375 x86-64 are 2M (when the CPU supports "pse") and 1G 1376 (when the CPU supports the "pdpe1gb" cpuinfo flag). 1377 1378 hung_task_panic= 1379 [KNL] Should the hung task detector generate panics. 1380 Format: <integer> 1381 1382 A nonzero value instructs the kernel to panic when a 1383 hung task is detected. The default value is controlled 1384 by the CONFIG_BOOTPARAM_HUNG_TASK_PANIC build-time 1385 option. The value selected by this boot parameter can 1386 be changed later by the kernel.hung_task_panic sysctl. 1387 1388 hvc_iucv= [S390] Number of z/VM IUCV hypervisor console (HVC) 1389 terminal devices. Valid values: 0..8 1390 hvc_iucv_allow= [S390] Comma-separated list of z/VM user IDs. 1391 If specified, z/VM IUCV HVC accepts connections 1392 from listed z/VM user IDs only. 1393 1394 hv_nopvspin [X86,HYPER_V] Disables the paravirt spinlock optimizations 1395 which allow the hypervisor to 'idle' the 1396 guest on lock contention. 1397 1398 keep_bootcon [KNL] 1399 Do not unregister boot console at start. This is only 1400 useful for debugging when something happens in the window 1401 between unregistering the boot console and initializing 1402 the real console. 1403 1404 i2c_bus= [HW] Override the default board specific I2C bus speed 1405 or register an additional I2C bus that is not 1406 registered from board initialization code. 1407 Format: 1408 <bus_id>,<clkrate> 1409 1410 i8042.debug [HW] Toggle i8042 debug mode 1411 i8042.unmask_kbd_data 1412 [HW] Enable printing of interrupt data from the KBD port 1413 (disabled by default, and as a pre-condition 1414 requires that i8042.debug=1 be enabled) 1415 i8042.direct [HW] Put keyboard port into non-translated mode 1416 i8042.dumbkbd [HW] Pretend that controller can only read data from 1417 keyboard and cannot control its state 1418 (Don't attempt to blink the leds) 1419 i8042.noaux [HW] Don't check for auxiliary (== mouse) port 1420 i8042.nokbd [HW] Don't check/create keyboard port 1421 i8042.noloop [HW] Disable the AUX Loopback command while probing 1422 for the AUX port 1423 i8042.nomux [HW] Don't check presence of an active multiplexing 1424 controller 1425 i8042.nopnp [HW] Don't use ACPIPnP / PnPBIOS to discover KBD/AUX 1426 controllers 1427 i8042.notimeout [HW] Ignore timeout condition signalled by controller 1428 i8042.reset [HW] Reset the controller during init, cleanup and 1429 suspend-to-ram transitions, only during s2r 1430 transitions, or never reset 1431 Format: { 1 | Y | y | 0 | N | n } 1432 1, Y, y: always reset controller 1433 0, N, n: don't ever reset controller 1434 Default: only on s2r transitions on x86; most other 1435 architectures force reset to be always executed 1436 i8042.unlock [HW] Unlock (ignore) the keylock 1437 i8042.kbdreset [HW] Reset device connected to KBD port 1438 1439 i810= [HW,DRM] 1440 1441 i8k.ignore_dmi [HW] Continue probing hardware even if DMI data 1442 indicates that the driver is running on unsupported 1443 hardware. 1444 i8k.force [HW] Activate i8k driver even if SMM BIOS signature 1445 does not match list of supported models. 1446 i8k.power_status 1447 [HW] Report power status in /proc/i8k 1448 (disabled by default) 1449 i8k.restricted [HW] Allow controlling fans only if SYS_ADMIN 1450 capability is set. 1451 1452 i915.invert_brightness= 1453 [DRM] Invert the sense of the variable that is used to 1454 set the brightness of the panel backlight. Normally a 1455 brightness value of 0 indicates backlight switched off, 1456 and the maximum of the brightness value sets the backlight 1457 to maximum brightness. If this parameter is set to 0 1458 (default) and the machine requires it, or this parameter 1459 is set to 1, a brightness value of 0 sets the backlight 1460 to maximum brightness, and the maximum of the brightness 1461 value switches the backlight off. 1462 -1 -- never invert brightness 1463 0 -- machine default 1464 1 -- force brightness inversion 1465 1466 icn= [HW,ISDN] 1467 Format: <io>[,<membase>[,<icn_id>[,<icn_id2>]]] 1468 1469 ide-core.nodma= [HW] (E)IDE subsystem 1470 Format: =0.0 to prevent dma on hda, =0.1 hdb =1.0 hdc 1471 .vlb_clock .pci_clock .noflush .nohpa .noprobe .nowerr 1472 .cdrom .chs .ignore_cable are additional options 1473 See Documentation/ide/ide.txt. 1474 1475 ide-generic.probe-mask= [HW] (E)IDE subsystem 1476 Format: <int> 1477 Probe mask for legacy ISA IDE ports. Depending on 1478 platform up to 6 ports are supported, enabled by 1479 setting corresponding bits in the mask to 1. The 1480 default value is 0x0, which has a special meaning. 1481 On systems that have PCI, it triggers scanning the 1482 PCI bus for the first and the second port, which 1483 are then probed. On systems without PCI the value 1484 of 0x0 enables probing the two first ports as if it 1485 was 0x3. 1486 1487 ide-pci-generic.all-generic-ide [HW] (E)IDE subsystem 1488 Claim all unknown PCI IDE storage controllers. 1489 1490 idle= [X86] 1491 Format: idle=poll, idle=halt, idle=nomwait 1492 Poll forces a polling idle loop that can slightly 1493 improve the performance of waking up a idle CPU, but 1494 will use a lot of power and make the system run hot. 1495 Not recommended. 1496 idle=halt: Halt is forced to be used for CPU idle. 1497 In such case C2/C3 won't be used again. 1498 idle=nomwait: Disable mwait for CPU C-states 1499 1500 ieee754= [MIPS] Select IEEE Std 754 conformance mode 1501 Format: { strict | legacy | 2008 | relaxed } 1502 Default: strict 1503 1504 Choose which programs will be accepted for execution 1505 based on the IEEE 754 NaN encoding(s) supported by 1506 the FPU and the NaN encoding requested with the value 1507 of an ELF file header flag individually set by each 1508 binary. Hardware implementations are permitted to 1509 support either or both of the legacy and the 2008 NaN 1510 encoding mode. 1511 1512 Available settings are as follows: 1513 strict accept binaries that request a NaN encoding 1514 supported by the FPU 1515 legacy only accept legacy-NaN binaries, if supported 1516 by the FPU 1517 2008 only accept 2008-NaN binaries, if supported 1518 by the FPU 1519 relaxed accept any binaries regardless of whether 1520 supported by the FPU 1521 1522 The FPU emulator is always able to support both NaN 1523 encodings, so if no FPU hardware is present or it has 1524 been disabled with 'nofpu', then the settings of 1525 'legacy' and '2008' strap the emulator accordingly, 1526 'relaxed' straps the emulator for both legacy-NaN and 1527 2008-NaN, whereas 'strict' enables legacy-NaN only on 1528 legacy processors and both NaN encodings on MIPS32 or 1529 MIPS64 CPUs. 1530 1531 The setting for ABS.fmt/NEG.fmt instruction execution 1532 mode generally follows that for the NaN encoding, 1533 except where unsupported by hardware. 1534 1535 ignore_loglevel [KNL] 1536 Ignore loglevel setting - this will print /all/ 1537 kernel messages to the console. Useful for debugging. 1538 We also add it as printk module parameter, so users 1539 could change it dynamically, usually by 1540 /sys/module/printk/parameters/ignore_loglevel. 1541 1542 ignore_rlimit_data 1543 Ignore RLIMIT_DATA setting for data mappings, 1544 print warning at first misuse. Can be changed via 1545 /sys/module/kernel/parameters/ignore_rlimit_data. 1546 1547 ihash_entries= [KNL] 1548 Set number of hash buckets for inode cache. 1549 1550 ima_appraise= [IMA] appraise integrity measurements 1551 Format: { "off" | "enforce" | "fix" | "log" } 1552 default: "enforce" 1553 1554 ima_appraise_tcb [IMA] 1555 The builtin appraise policy appraises all files 1556 owned by uid=0. 1557 1558 ima_canonical_fmt [IMA] 1559 Use the canonical format for the binary runtime 1560 measurements, instead of host native format. 1561 1562 ima_hash= [IMA] 1563 Format: { md5 | sha1 | rmd160 | sha256 | sha384 1564 | sha512 | ... } 1565 default: "sha1" 1566 1567 The list of supported hash algorithms is defined 1568 in crypto/hash_info.h. 1569 1570 ima_policy= [IMA] 1571 The builtin policies to load during IMA setup. 1572 Format: "tcb | appraise_tcb | secure_boot | 1573 fail_securely" 1574 1575 The "tcb" policy measures all programs exec'd, files 1576 mmap'd for exec, and all files opened with the read 1577 mode bit set by either the effective uid (euid=0) or 1578 uid=0. 1579 1580 The "appraise_tcb" policy appraises the integrity of 1581 all files owned by root. (This is the equivalent 1582 of ima_appraise_tcb.) 1583 1584 The "secure_boot" policy appraises the integrity 1585 of files (eg. kexec kernel image, kernel modules, 1586 firmware, policy, etc) based on file signatures. 1587 1588 The "fail_securely" policy forces file signature 1589 verification failure also on privileged mounted 1590 filesystems with the SB_I_UNVERIFIABLE_SIGNATURE 1591 flag. 1592 1593 ima_tcb [IMA] Deprecated. Use ima_policy= instead. 1594 Load a policy which meets the needs of the Trusted 1595 Computing Base. This means IMA will measure all 1596 programs exec'd, files mmap'd for exec, and all files 1597 opened for read by uid=0. 1598 1599 ima_template= [IMA] 1600 Select one of defined IMA measurements template formats. 1601 Formats: { "ima" | "ima-ng" | "ima-sig" } 1602 Default: "ima-ng" 1603 1604 ima_template_fmt= 1605 [IMA] Define a custom template format. 1606 Format: { "field1|...|fieldN" } 1607 1608 ima.ahash_minsize= [IMA] Minimum file size for asynchronous hash usage 1609 Format: <min_file_size> 1610 Set the minimal file size for using asynchronous hash. 1611 If left unspecified, ahash usage is disabled. 1612 1613 ahash performance varies for different data sizes on 1614 different crypto accelerators. This option can be used 1615 to achieve the best performance for a particular HW. 1616 1617 ima.ahash_bufsize= [IMA] Asynchronous hash buffer size 1618 Format: <bufsize> 1619 Set hashing buffer size. Default: 4k. 1620 1621 ahash performance varies for different chunk sizes on 1622 different crypto accelerators. This option can be used 1623 to achieve best performance for particular HW. 1624 1625 init= [KNL] 1626 Format: <full_path> 1627 Run specified binary instead of /sbin/init as init 1628 process. 1629 1630 initcall_debug [KNL] Trace initcalls as they are executed. Useful 1631 for working out where the kernel is dying during 1632 startup. 1633 1634 initcall_blacklist= [KNL] Do not execute a comma-separated list of 1635 initcall functions. Useful for debugging built-in 1636 modules and initcalls. 1637 1638 initrd= [BOOT] Specify the location of the initial ramdisk 1639 1640 init_pkru= [x86] Specify the default memory protection keys rights 1641 register contents for all processes. 0x55555554 by 1642 default (disallow access to all but pkey 0). Can 1643 override in debugfs after boot. 1644 1645 inport.irq= [HW] Inport (ATI XL and Microsoft) busmouse driver 1646 Format: <irq> 1647 1648 int_pln_enable [x86] Enable power limit notification interrupt 1649 1650 integrity_audit=[IMA] 1651 Format: { "0" | "1" } 1652 0 -- basic integrity auditing messages. (Default) 1653 1 -- additional integrity auditing messages. 1654 1655 intel_iommu= [DMAR] Intel IOMMU driver (DMAR) option 1656 on 1657 Enable intel iommu driver. 1658 off 1659 Disable intel iommu driver. 1660 igfx_off [Default Off] 1661 By default, gfx is mapped as normal device. If a gfx 1662 device has a dedicated DMAR unit, the DMAR unit is 1663 bypassed by not enabling DMAR with this option. In 1664 this case, gfx device will use physical address for 1665 DMA. 1666 forcedac [x86_64] 1667 With this option iommu will not optimize to look 1668 for io virtual address below 32-bit forcing dual 1669 address cycle on pci bus for cards supporting greater 1670 than 32-bit addressing. The default is to look 1671 for translation below 32-bit and if not available 1672 then look in the higher range. 1673 strict [Default Off] 1674 With this option on every unmap_single operation will 1675 result in a hardware IOTLB flush operation as opposed 1676 to batching them for performance. 1677 sp_off [Default Off] 1678 By default, super page will be supported if Intel IOMMU 1679 has the capability. With this option, super page will 1680 not be supported. 1681 ecs_off [Default Off] 1682 By default, extended context tables will be supported if 1683 the hardware advertises that it has support both for the 1684 extended tables themselves, and also PASID support. With 1685 this option set, extended tables will not be used even 1686 on hardware which claims to support them. 1687 tboot_noforce [Default Off] 1688 Do not force the Intel IOMMU enabled under tboot. 1689 By default, tboot will force Intel IOMMU on, which 1690 could harm performance of some high-throughput 1691 devices like 40GBit network cards, even if identity 1692 mapping is enabled. 1693 Note that using this option lowers the security 1694 provided by tboot because it makes the system 1695 vulnerable to DMA attacks. 1696 1697 intel_idle.max_cstate= [KNL,HW,ACPI,X86] 1698 0 disables intel_idle and fall back on acpi_idle. 1699 1 to 9 specify maximum depth of C-state. 1700 1701 intel_pstate= [X86] 1702 disable 1703 Do not enable intel_pstate as the default 1704 scaling driver for the supported processors 1705 passive 1706 Use intel_pstate as a scaling driver, but configure it 1707 to work with generic cpufreq governors (instead of 1708 enabling its internal governor). This mode cannot be 1709 used along with the hardware-managed P-states (HWP) 1710 feature. 1711 force 1712 Enable intel_pstate on systems that prohibit it by default 1713 in favor of acpi-cpufreq. Forcing the intel_pstate driver 1714 instead of acpi-cpufreq may disable platform features, such 1715 as thermal controls and power capping, that rely on ACPI 1716 P-States information being indicated to OSPM and therefore 1717 should be used with caution. This option does not work with 1718 processors that aren't supported by the intel_pstate driver 1719 or on platforms that use pcc-cpufreq instead of acpi-cpufreq. 1720 no_hwp 1721 Do not enable hardware P state control (HWP) 1722 if available. 1723 hwp_only 1724 Only load intel_pstate on systems which support 1725 hardware P state control (HWP) if available. 1726 support_acpi_ppc 1727 Enforce ACPI _PPC performance limits. If the Fixed ACPI 1728 Description Table, specifies preferred power management 1729 profile as "Enterprise Server" or "Performance Server", 1730 then this feature is turned on by default. 1731 per_cpu_perf_limits 1732 Allow per-logical-CPU P-State performance control limits using 1733 cpufreq sysfs interface 1734 1735 intremap= [X86-64, Intel-IOMMU] 1736 on enable Interrupt Remapping (default) 1737 off disable Interrupt Remapping 1738 nosid disable Source ID checking 1739 no_x2apic_optout 1740 BIOS x2APIC opt-out request will be ignored 1741 nopost disable Interrupt Posting 1742 1743 iomem= Disable strict checking of access to MMIO memory 1744 strict regions from userspace. 1745 relaxed 1746 1747 iommu= [x86] 1748 off 1749 force 1750 noforce 1751 biomerge 1752 panic 1753 nopanic 1754 merge 1755 nomerge 1756 soft 1757 pt [x86] 1758 nopt [x86] 1759 nobypass [PPC/POWERNV] 1760 Disable IOMMU bypass, using IOMMU for PCI devices. 1761 1762 iommu.passthrough= 1763 [ARM64] Configure DMA to bypass the IOMMU by default. 1764 Format: { "0" | "1" } 1765 0 - Use IOMMU translation for DMA. 1766 1 - Bypass the IOMMU for DMA. 1767 unset - Use value of CONFIG_IOMMU_DEFAULT_PASSTHROUGH. 1768 1769 io7= [HW] IO7 for Marvel based alpha systems 1770 See comment before marvel_specify_io7 in 1771 arch/alpha/kernel/core_marvel.c. 1772 1773 io_delay= [X86] I/O delay method 1774 0x80 1775 Standard port 0x80 based delay 1776 0xed 1777 Alternate port 0xed based delay (needed on some systems) 1778 udelay 1779 Simple two microseconds delay 1780 none 1781 No delay 1782 1783 ip= [IP_PNP] 1784 See Documentation/filesystems/nfs/nfsroot.txt. 1785 1786 irqaffinity= [SMP] Set the default irq affinity mask 1787 The argument is a cpu list, as described above. 1788 1789 irqchip.gicv2_force_probe= 1790 [ARM, ARM64] 1791 Format: <bool> 1792 Force the kernel to look for the second 4kB page 1793 of a GICv2 controller even if the memory range 1794 exposed by the device tree is too small. 1795 1796 irqchip.gicv3_nolpi= 1797 [ARM, ARM64] 1798 Force the kernel to ignore the availability of 1799 LPIs (and by consequence ITSs). Intended for system 1800 that use the kernel as a bootloader, and thus want 1801 to let secondary kernels in charge of setting up 1802 LPIs. 1803 1804 irqfixup [HW] 1805 When an interrupt is not handled search all handlers 1806 for it. Intended to get systems with badly broken 1807 firmware running. 1808 1809 irqpoll [HW] 1810 When an interrupt is not handled search all handlers 1811 for it. Also check all handlers each timer 1812 interrupt. Intended to get systems with badly broken 1813 firmware running. 1814 1815 isapnp= [ISAPNP] 1816 Format: <RDP>,<reset>,<pci_scan>,<verbosity> 1817 1818 isolcpus= [KNL,SMP,ISOL] Isolate a given set of CPUs from disturbance. 1819 [Deprecated - use cpusets instead] 1820 Format: [flag-list,]<cpu-list> 1821 1822 Specify one or more CPUs to isolate from disturbances 1823 specified in the flag list (default: domain): 1824 1825 nohz 1826 Disable the tick when a single task runs. 1827 1828 A residual 1Hz tick is offloaded to workqueues, which you 1829 need to affine to housekeeping through the global 1830 workqueue's affinity configured via the 1831 /sys/devices/virtual/workqueue/cpumask sysfs file, or 1832 by using the 'domain' flag described below. 1833 1834 NOTE: by default the global workqueue runs on all CPUs, 1835 so to protect individual CPUs the 'cpumask' file has to 1836 be configured manually after bootup. 1837 1838 domain 1839 Isolate from the general SMP balancing and scheduling 1840 algorithms. Note that performing domain isolation this way 1841 is irreversible: it's not possible to bring back a CPU to 1842 the domains once isolated through isolcpus. It's strongly 1843 advised to use cpusets instead to disable scheduler load 1844 balancing through the "cpuset.sched_load_balance" file. 1845 It offers a much more flexible interface where CPUs can 1846 move in and out of an isolated set anytime. 1847 1848 You can move a process onto or off an "isolated" CPU via 1849 the CPU affinity syscalls or cpuset. 1850 <cpu number> begins at 0 and the maximum value is 1851 "number of CPUs in system - 1". 1852 1853 The format of <cpu-list> is described above. 1854 1855 1856 1857 iucv= [HW,NET] 1858 1859 ivrs_ioapic [HW,X86_64] 1860 Provide an override to the IOAPIC-ID<->DEVICE-ID 1861 mapping provided in the IVRS ACPI table. For 1862 example, to map IOAPIC-ID decimal 10 to 1863 PCI device 00:14.0 write the parameter as: 1864 ivrs_ioapic[10]=00:14.0 1865 1866 ivrs_hpet [HW,X86_64] 1867 Provide an override to the HPET-ID<->DEVICE-ID 1868 mapping provided in the IVRS ACPI table. For 1869 example, to map HPET-ID decimal 0 to 1870 PCI device 00:14.0 write the parameter as: 1871 ivrs_hpet[0]=00:14.0 1872 1873 ivrs_acpihid [HW,X86_64] 1874 Provide an override to the ACPI-HID:UID<->DEVICE-ID 1875 mapping provided in the IVRS ACPI table. For 1876 example, to map UART-HID:UID AMD0020:0 to 1877 PCI device 00:14.5 write the parameter as: 1878 ivrs_acpihid[00:14.5]=AMD0020:0 1879 1880 js= [HW,JOY] Analog joystick 1881 See Documentation/input/joydev/joystick.rst. 1882 1883 nokaslr [KNL] 1884 When CONFIG_RANDOMIZE_BASE is set, this disables 1885 kernel and module base offset ASLR (Address Space 1886 Layout Randomization). 1887 1888 kasan_multi_shot 1889 [KNL] Enforce KASAN (Kernel Address Sanitizer) to print 1890 report on every invalid memory access. Without this 1891 parameter KASAN will print report only for the first 1892 invalid access. 1893 1894 keepinitrd [HW,ARM] 1895 1896 kernelcore= [KNL,X86,IA-64,PPC] 1897 Format: nn[KMGTPE] | nn% | "mirror" 1898 This parameter specifies the amount of memory usable by 1899 the kernel for non-movable allocations. The requested 1900 amount is spread evenly throughout all nodes in the 1901 system as ZONE_NORMAL. The remaining memory is used for 1902 movable memory in its own zone, ZONE_MOVABLE. In the 1903 event, a node is too small to have both ZONE_NORMAL and 1904 ZONE_MOVABLE, kernelcore memory will take priority and 1905 other nodes will have a larger ZONE_MOVABLE. 1906 1907 ZONE_MOVABLE is used for the allocation of pages that 1908 may be reclaimed or moved by the page migration 1909 subsystem. Note that allocations like PTEs-from-HighMem 1910 still use the HighMem zone if it exists, and the Normal 1911 zone if it does not. 1912 1913 It is possible to specify the exact amount of memory in 1914 the form of "nn[KMGTPE]", a percentage of total system 1915 memory in the form of "nn%", or "mirror". If "mirror" 1916 option is specified, mirrored (reliable) memory is used 1917 for non-movable allocations and remaining memory is used 1918 for Movable pages. "nn[KMGTPE]", "nn%", and "mirror" 1919 are exclusive, so you cannot specify multiple forms. 1920 1921 kgdbdbgp= [KGDB,HW] kgdb over EHCI usb debug port. 1922 Format: <Controller#>[,poll interval] 1923 The controller # is the number of the ehci usb debug 1924 port as it is probed via PCI. The poll interval is 1925 optional and is the number seconds in between 1926 each poll cycle to the debug port in case you need 1927 the functionality for interrupting the kernel with 1928 gdb or control-c on the dbgp connection. When 1929 not using this parameter you use sysrq-g to break into 1930 the kernel debugger. 1931 1932 kgdboc= [KGDB,HW] kgdb over consoles. 1933 Requires a tty driver that supports console polling, 1934 or a supported polling keyboard driver (non-usb). 1935 Serial only format: <serial_device>[,baud] 1936 keyboard only format: kbd 1937 keyboard and serial format: kbd,<serial_device>[,baud] 1938 Optional Kernel mode setting: 1939 kms, kbd format: kms,kbd 1940 kms, kbd and serial format: kms,kbd,<ser_dev>[,baud] 1941 1942 kgdbwait [KGDB] Stop kernel execution and enter the 1943 kernel debugger at the earliest opportunity. 1944 1945 kmac= [MIPS] korina ethernet MAC address. 1946 Configure the RouterBoard 532 series on-chip 1947 Ethernet adapter MAC address. 1948 1949 kmemleak= [KNL] Boot-time kmemleak enable/disable 1950 Valid arguments: on, off 1951 Default: on 1952 Built with CONFIG_DEBUG_KMEMLEAK_DEFAULT_OFF=y, 1953 the default is off. 1954 1955 kvm.ignore_msrs=[KVM] Ignore guest accesses to unhandled MSRs. 1956 Default is 0 (don't ignore, but inject #GP) 1957 1958 kvm.enable_vmware_backdoor=[KVM] Support VMware backdoor PV interface. 1959 Default is false (don't support). 1960 1961 kvm.mmu_audit= [KVM] This is a R/W parameter which allows audit 1962 KVM MMU at runtime. 1963 Default is 0 (off) 1964 1965 kvm-amd.nested= [KVM,AMD] Allow nested virtualization in KVM/SVM. 1966 Default is 1 (enabled) 1967 1968 kvm-amd.npt= [KVM,AMD] Disable nested paging (virtualized MMU) 1969 for all guests. 1970 Default is 1 (enabled) if in 64-bit or 32-bit PAE mode. 1971 1972 kvm-arm.vgic_v3_group0_trap= 1973 [KVM,ARM] Trap guest accesses to GICv3 group-0 1974 system registers 1975 1976 kvm-arm.vgic_v3_group1_trap= 1977 [KVM,ARM] Trap guest accesses to GICv3 group-1 1978 system registers 1979 1980 kvm-arm.vgic_v3_common_trap= 1981 [KVM,ARM] Trap guest accesses to GICv3 common 1982 system registers 1983 1984 kvm-arm.vgic_v4_enable= 1985 [KVM,ARM] Allow use of GICv4 for direct injection of 1986 LPIs. 1987 1988 kvm-intel.ept= [KVM,Intel] Disable extended page tables 1989 (virtualized MMU) support on capable Intel chips. 1990 Default is 1 (enabled) 1991 1992 kvm-intel.emulate_invalid_guest_state= 1993 [KVM,Intel] Enable emulation of invalid guest states 1994 Default is 0 (disabled) 1995 1996 kvm-intel.flexpriority= 1997 [KVM,Intel] Disable FlexPriority feature (TPR shadow). 1998 Default is 1 (enabled) 1999 2000 kvm-intel.nested= 2001 [KVM,Intel] Enable VMX nesting (nVMX). 2002 Default is 0 (disabled) 2003 2004 kvm-intel.unrestricted_guest= 2005 [KVM,Intel] Disable unrestricted guest feature 2006 (virtualized real and unpaged mode) on capable 2007 Intel chips. Default is 1 (enabled) 2008 2009 kvm-intel.vmentry_l1d_flush=[KVM,Intel] Mitigation for L1 Terminal Fault 2010 CVE-2018-3620. 2011 2012 Valid arguments: never, cond, always 2013 2014 always: L1D cache flush on every VMENTER. 2015 cond: Flush L1D on VMENTER only when the code between 2016 VMEXIT and VMENTER can leak host memory. 2017 never: Disables the mitigation 2018 2019 Default is cond (do L1 cache flush in specific instances) 2020 2021 kvm-intel.vpid= [KVM,Intel] Disable Virtual Processor Identification 2022 feature (tagged TLBs) on capable Intel chips. 2023 Default is 1 (enabled) 2024 2025 l1tf= [X86] Control mitigation of the L1TF vulnerability on 2026 affected CPUs 2027 2028 The kernel PTE inversion protection is unconditionally 2029 enabled and cannot be disabled. 2030 2031 full 2032 Provides all available mitigations for the 2033 L1TF vulnerability. Disables SMT and 2034 enables all mitigations in the 2035 hypervisors, i.e. unconditional L1D flush. 2036 2037 SMT control and L1D flush control via the 2038 sysfs interface is still possible after 2039 boot. Hypervisors will issue a warning 2040 when the first VM is started in a 2041 potentially insecure configuration, 2042 i.e. SMT enabled or L1D flush disabled. 2043 2044 full,force 2045 Same as 'full', but disables SMT and L1D 2046 flush runtime control. Implies the 2047 'nosmt=force' command line option. 2048 (i.e. sysfs control of SMT is disabled.) 2049 2050 flush 2051 Leaves SMT enabled and enables the default 2052 hypervisor mitigation, i.e. conditional 2053 L1D flush. 2054 2055 SMT control and L1D flush control via the 2056 sysfs interface is still possible after 2057 boot. Hypervisors will issue a warning 2058 when the first VM is started in a 2059 potentially insecure configuration, 2060 i.e. SMT enabled or L1D flush disabled. 2061 2062 flush,nosmt 2063 2064 Disables SMT and enables the default 2065 hypervisor mitigation. 2066 2067 SMT control and L1D flush control via the 2068 sysfs interface is still possible after 2069 boot. Hypervisors will issue a warning 2070 when the first VM is started in a 2071 potentially insecure configuration, 2072 i.e. SMT enabled or L1D flush disabled. 2073 2074 flush,nowarn 2075 Same as 'flush', but hypervisors will not 2076 warn when a VM is started in a potentially 2077 insecure configuration. 2078 2079 off 2080 Disables hypervisor mitigations and doesn't 2081 emit any warnings. 2082 2083 Default is 'flush'. 2084 2085 For details see: Documentation/admin-guide/l1tf.rst 2086 2087 l2cr= [PPC] 2088 2089 l3cr= [PPC] 2090 2091 lapic [X86-32,APIC] Enable the local APIC even if BIOS 2092 disabled it. 2093 2094 lapic= [x86,APIC] "notscdeadline" Do not use TSC deadline 2095 value for LAPIC timer one-shot implementation. Default 2096 back to the programmable timer unit in the LAPIC. 2097 2098 lapic_timer_c2_ok [X86,APIC] trust the local apic timer 2099 in C2 power state. 2100 2101 libata.dma= [LIBATA] DMA control 2102 libata.dma=0 Disable all PATA and SATA DMA 2103 libata.dma=1 PATA and SATA Disk DMA only 2104 libata.dma=2 ATAPI (CDROM) DMA only 2105 libata.dma=4 Compact Flash DMA only 2106 Combinations also work, so libata.dma=3 enables DMA 2107 for disks and CDROMs, but not CFs. 2108 2109 libata.ignore_hpa= [LIBATA] Ignore HPA limit 2110 libata.ignore_hpa=0 keep BIOS limits (default) 2111 libata.ignore_hpa=1 ignore limits, using full disk 2112 2113 libata.noacpi [LIBATA] Disables use of ACPI in libata suspend/resume 2114 when set. 2115 Format: <int> 2116 2117 libata.force= [LIBATA] Force configurations. The format is comma 2118 separated list of "[ID:]VAL" where ID is 2119 PORT[.DEVICE]. PORT and DEVICE are decimal numbers 2120 matching port, link or device. Basically, it matches 2121 the ATA ID string printed on console by libata. If 2122 the whole ID part is omitted, the last PORT and DEVICE 2123 values are used. If ID hasn't been specified yet, the 2124 configuration applies to all ports, links and devices. 2125 2126 If only DEVICE is omitted, the parameter applies to 2127 the port and all links and devices behind it. DEVICE 2128 number of 0 either selects the first device or the 2129 first fan-out link behind PMP device. It does not 2130 select the host link. DEVICE number of 15 selects the 2131 host link and device attached to it. 2132 2133 The VAL specifies the configuration to force. As long 2134 as there's no ambiguity shortcut notation is allowed. 2135 For example, both 1.5 and 1.5G would work for 1.5Gbps. 2136 The following configurations can be forced. 2137 2138 * Cable type: 40c, 80c, short40c, unk, ign or sata. 2139 Any ID with matching PORT is used. 2140 2141 * SATA link speed limit: 1.5Gbps or 3.0Gbps. 2142 2143 * Transfer mode: pio[0-7], mwdma[0-4] and udma[0-7]. 2144 udma[/][16,25,33,44,66,100,133] notation is also 2145 allowed. 2146 2147 * [no]ncq: Turn on or off NCQ. 2148 2149 * [no]ncqtrim: Turn off queued DSM TRIM. 2150 2151 * nohrst, nosrst, norst: suppress hard, soft 2152 and both resets. 2153 2154 * rstonce: only attempt one reset during 2155 hot-unplug link recovery 2156 2157 * dump_id: dump IDENTIFY data. 2158 2159 * atapi_dmadir: Enable ATAPI DMADIR bridge support 2160 2161 * disable: Disable this device. 2162 2163 If there are multiple matching configurations changing 2164 the same attribute, the last one is used. 2165 2166 memblock=debug [KNL] Enable memblock debug messages. 2167 2168 load_ramdisk= [RAM] List of ramdisks to load from floppy 2169 See Documentation/blockdev/ramdisk.txt. 2170 2171 lockd.nlm_grace_period=P [NFS] Assign grace period. 2172 Format: <integer> 2173 2174 lockd.nlm_tcpport=N [NFS] Assign TCP port. 2175 Format: <integer> 2176 2177 lockd.nlm_timeout=T [NFS] Assign timeout value. 2178 Format: <integer> 2179 2180 lockd.nlm_udpport=M [NFS] Assign UDP port. 2181 Format: <integer> 2182 2183 locktorture.nreaders_stress= [KNL] 2184 Set the number of locking read-acquisition kthreads. 2185 Defaults to being automatically set based on the 2186 number of online CPUs. 2187 2188 locktorture.nwriters_stress= [KNL] 2189 Set the number of locking write-acquisition kthreads. 2190 2191 locktorture.onoff_holdoff= [KNL] 2192 Set time (s) after boot for CPU-hotplug testing. 2193 2194 locktorture.onoff_interval= [KNL] 2195 Set time (s) between CPU-hotplug operations, or 2196 zero to disable CPU-hotplug testing. 2197 2198 locktorture.shuffle_interval= [KNL] 2199 Set task-shuffle interval (jiffies). Shuffling 2200 tasks allows some CPUs to go into dyntick-idle 2201 mode during the locktorture test. 2202 2203 locktorture.shutdown_secs= [KNL] 2204 Set time (s) after boot system shutdown. This 2205 is useful for hands-off automated testing. 2206 2207 locktorture.stat_interval= [KNL] 2208 Time (s) between statistics printk()s. 2209 2210 locktorture.stutter= [KNL] 2211 Time (s) to stutter testing, for example, 2212 specifying five seconds causes the test to run for 2213 five seconds, wait for five seconds, and so on. 2214 This tests the locking primitive's ability to 2215 transition abruptly to and from idle. 2216 2217 locktorture.torture_type= [KNL] 2218 Specify the locking implementation to test. 2219 2220 locktorture.verbose= [KNL] 2221 Enable additional printk() statements. 2222 2223 logibm.irq= [HW,MOUSE] Logitech Bus Mouse Driver 2224 Format: <irq> 2225 2226 loglevel= All Kernel Messages with a loglevel smaller than the 2227 console loglevel will be printed to the console. It can 2228 also be changed with klogd or other programs. The 2229 loglevels are defined as follows: 2230 2231 0 (KERN_EMERG) system is unusable 2232 1 (KERN_ALERT) action must be taken immediately 2233 2 (KERN_CRIT) critical conditions 2234 3 (KERN_ERR) error conditions 2235 4 (KERN_WARNING) warning conditions 2236 5 (KERN_NOTICE) normal but significant condition 2237 6 (KERN_INFO) informational 2238 7 (KERN_DEBUG) debug-level messages 2239 2240 log_buf_len=n[KMG] Sets the size of the printk ring buffer, 2241 in bytes. n must be a power of two and greater 2242 than the minimal size. The minimal size is defined 2243 by LOG_BUF_SHIFT kernel config parameter. There is 2244 also CONFIG_LOG_CPU_MAX_BUF_SHIFT config parameter 2245 that allows to increase the default size depending on 2246 the number of CPUs. See init/Kconfig for more details. 2247 2248 logo.nologo [FB] Disables display of the built-in Linux logo. 2249 This may be used to provide more screen space for 2250 kernel log messages and is useful when debugging 2251 kernel boot problems. 2252 2253 lp=0 [LP] Specify parallel ports to use, e.g, 2254 lp=port[,port...] lp=none,parport0 (lp0 not configured, lp1 uses 2255 lp=reset first parallel port). 'lp=0' disables the 2256 lp=auto printer driver. 'lp=reset' (which can be 2257 specified in addition to the ports) causes 2258 attached printers to be reset. Using 2259 lp=port1,port2,... specifies the parallel ports 2260 to associate lp devices with, starting with 2261 lp0. A port specification may be 'none' to skip 2262 that lp device, or a parport name such as 2263 'parport0'. Specifying 'lp=auto' instead of a 2264 port specification list means that device IDs 2265 from each port should be examined, to see if 2266 an IEEE 1284-compliant printer is attached; if 2267 so, the driver will manage that printer. 2268 See also header of drivers/char/lp.c. 2269 2270 lpj=n [KNL] 2271 Sets loops_per_jiffy to given constant, thus avoiding 2272 time-consuming boot-time autodetection (up to 250 ms per 2273 CPU). 0 enables autodetection (default). To determine 2274 the correct value for your kernel, boot with normal 2275 autodetection and see what value is printed. Note that 2276 on SMP systems the preset will be applied to all CPUs, 2277 which is likely to cause problems if your CPUs need 2278 significantly divergent settings. An incorrect value 2279 will cause delays in the kernel to be wrong, leading to 2280 unpredictable I/O errors and other breakage. Although 2281 unlikely, in the extreme case this might damage your 2282 hardware. 2283 2284 ltpc= [NET] 2285 Format: <io>,<irq>,<dma> 2286 2287 lsm.debug [SECURITY] Enable LSM initialization debugging output. 2288 2289 machvec= [IA-64] Force the use of a particular machine-vector 2290 (machvec) in a generic kernel. 2291 Example: machvec=hpzx1_swiotlb 2292 2293 machtype= [Loongson] Share the same kernel image file between different 2294 yeeloong laptop. 2295 Example: machtype=lemote-yeeloong-2f-7inch 2296 2297 max_addr=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT,ia64] All physical memory greater 2298 than or equal to this physical address is ignored. 2299 2300 maxcpus= [SMP] Maximum number of processors that an SMP kernel 2301 will bring up during bootup. maxcpus=n : n >= 0 limits 2302 the kernel to bring up 'n' processors. Surely after 2303 bootup you can bring up the other plugged cpu by executing 2304 "echo 1 > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpuX/online". So maxcpus 2305 only takes effect during system bootup. 2306 While n=0 is a special case, it is equivalent to "nosmp", 2307 which also disables the IO APIC. 2308 2309 max_loop= [LOOP] The number of loop block devices that get 2310 (loop.max_loop) unconditionally pre-created at init time. The default 2311 number is configured by BLK_DEV_LOOP_MIN_COUNT. Instead 2312 of statically allocating a predefined number, loop 2313 devices can be requested on-demand with the 2314 /dev/loop-control interface. 2315 2316 mce [X86-32] Machine Check Exception 2317 2318 mce=option [X86-64] See Documentation/x86/x86_64/boot-options.txt 2319 2320 md= [HW] RAID subsystems devices and level 2321 See Documentation/admin-guide/md.rst. 2322 2323 mdacon= [MDA] 2324 Format: <first>,<last> 2325 Specifies range of consoles to be captured by the MDA. 2326 2327 mem=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT] Force usage of a specific amount of memory 2328 Amount of memory to be used when the kernel is not able 2329 to see the whole system memory or for test. 2330 [X86] Work as limiting max address. Use together 2331 with memmap= to avoid physical address space collisions. 2332 Without memmap= PCI devices could be placed at addresses 2333 belonging to unused RAM. 2334 2335 mem=nopentium [BUGS=X86-32] Disable usage of 4MB pages for kernel 2336 memory. 2337 2338 memchunk=nn[KMG] 2339 [KNL,SH] Allow user to override the default size for 2340 per-device physically contiguous DMA buffers. 2341 2342 memhp_default_state=online/offline 2343 [KNL] Set the initial state for the memory hotplug 2344 onlining policy. If not specified, the default value is 2345 set according to the 2346 CONFIG_MEMORY_HOTPLUG_DEFAULT_ONLINE kernel config 2347 option. 2348 See Documentation/memory-hotplug.txt. 2349 2350 memmap=exactmap [KNL,X86] Enable setting of an exact 2351 E820 memory map, as specified by the user. 2352 Such memmap=exactmap lines can be constructed based on 2353 BIOS output or other requirements. See the memmap=nn@ss 2354 option description. 2355 2356 memmap=nn[KMG]@ss[KMG] 2357 [KNL] Force usage of a specific region of memory. 2358 Region of memory to be used is from ss to ss+nn. 2359 If @ss[KMG] is omitted, it is equivalent to mem=nn[KMG], 2360 which limits max address to nn[KMG]. 2361 Multiple different regions can be specified, 2362 comma delimited. 2363 Example: 2364 memmap=100M@2G,100M#3G,1G!1024G 2365 2366 memmap=nn[KMG]#ss[KMG] 2367 [KNL,ACPI] Mark specific memory as ACPI data. 2368 Region of memory to be marked is from ss to ss+nn. 2369 2370 memmap=nn[KMG]$ss[KMG] 2371 [KNL,ACPI] Mark specific memory as reserved. 2372 Region of memory to be reserved is from ss to ss+nn. 2373 Example: Exclude memory from 0x18690000-0x1869ffff 2374 memmap=64K$0x18690000 2375 or 2376 memmap=0x10000$0x18690000 2377 Some bootloaders may need an escape character before '$', 2378 like Grub2, otherwise '$' and the following number 2379 will be eaten. 2380 2381 memmap=nn[KMG]!ss[KMG] 2382 [KNL,X86] Mark specific memory as protected. 2383 Region of memory to be used, from ss to ss+nn. 2384 The memory region may be marked as e820 type 12 (0xc) 2385 and is NVDIMM or ADR memory. 2386 2387 memmap=<size>%<offset>-<oldtype>+<newtype> 2388 [KNL,ACPI] Convert memory within the specified region 2389 from <oldtype> to <newtype>. If "-<oldtype>" is left 2390 out, the whole region will be marked as <newtype>, 2391 even if previously unavailable. If "+<newtype>" is left 2392 out, matching memory will be removed. Types are 2393 specified as e820 types, e.g., 1 = RAM, 2 = reserved, 2394 3 = ACPI, 12 = PRAM. 2395 2396 memory_corruption_check=0/1 [X86] 2397 Some BIOSes seem to corrupt the first 64k of 2398 memory when doing things like suspend/resume. 2399 Setting this option will scan the memory 2400 looking for corruption. Enabling this will 2401 both detect corruption and prevent the kernel 2402 from using the memory being corrupted. 2403 However, its intended as a diagnostic tool; if 2404 repeatable BIOS-originated corruption always 2405 affects the same memory, you can use memmap= 2406 to prevent the kernel from using that memory. 2407 2408 memory_corruption_check_size=size [X86] 2409 By default it checks for corruption in the low 2410 64k, making this memory unavailable for normal 2411 use. Use this parameter to scan for 2412 corruption in more or less memory. 2413 2414 memory_corruption_check_period=seconds [X86] 2415 By default it checks for corruption every 60 2416 seconds. Use this parameter to check at some 2417 other rate. 0 disables periodic checking. 2418 2419 memtest= [KNL,X86,ARM] Enable memtest 2420 Format: <integer> 2421 default : 0 <disable> 2422 Specifies the number of memtest passes to be 2423 performed. Each pass selects another test 2424 pattern from a given set of patterns. Memtest 2425 fills the memory with this pattern, validates 2426 memory contents and reserves bad memory 2427 regions that are detected. 2428 2429 mem_encrypt= [X86-64] AMD Secure Memory Encryption (SME) control 2430 Valid arguments: on, off 2431 Default (depends on kernel configuration option): 2432 on (CONFIG_AMD_MEM_ENCRYPT_ACTIVE_BY_DEFAULT=y) 2433 off (CONFIG_AMD_MEM_ENCRYPT_ACTIVE_BY_DEFAULT=n) 2434 mem_encrypt=on: Activate SME 2435 mem_encrypt=off: Do not activate SME 2436 2437 Refer to Documentation/x86/amd-memory-encryption.txt 2438 for details on when memory encryption can be activated. 2439 2440 mem_sleep_default= [SUSPEND] Default system suspend mode: 2441 s2idle - Suspend-To-Idle 2442 shallow - Power-On Suspend or equivalent (if supported) 2443 deep - Suspend-To-RAM or equivalent (if supported) 2444 See Documentation/admin-guide/pm/sleep-states.rst. 2445 2446 meye.*= [HW] Set MotionEye Camera parameters 2447 See Documentation/media/v4l-drivers/meye.rst. 2448 2449 mfgpt_irq= [IA-32] Specify the IRQ to use for the 2450 Multi-Function General Purpose Timers on AMD Geode 2451 platforms. 2452 2453 mfgptfix [X86-32] Fix MFGPT timers on AMD Geode platforms when 2454 the BIOS has incorrectly applied a workaround. TinyBIOS 2455 version 0.98 is known to be affected, 0.99 fixes the 2456 problem by letting the user disable the workaround. 2457 2458 mga= [HW,DRM] 2459 2460 min_addr=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT,ia64] All physical memory below this 2461 physical address is ignored. 2462 2463 mini2440= [ARM,HW,KNL] 2464 Format:[0..2][b][c][t] 2465 Default: "0tb" 2466 MINI2440 configuration specification: 2467 0 - The attached screen is the 3.5" TFT 2468 1 - The attached screen is the 7" TFT 2469 2 - The VGA Shield is attached (1024x768) 2470 Leaving out the screen size parameter will not load 2471 the TFT driver, and the framebuffer will be left 2472 unconfigured. 2473 b - Enable backlight. The TFT backlight pin will be 2474 linked to the kernel VESA blanking code and a GPIO 2475 LED. This parameter is not necessary when using the 2476 VGA shield. 2477 c - Enable the s3c camera interface. 2478 t - Reserved for enabling touchscreen support. The 2479 touchscreen support is not enabled in the mainstream 2480 kernel as of 2.6.30, a preliminary port can be found 2481 in the "bleeding edge" mini2440 support kernel at 2482 http://repo.or.cz/w/linux-2.6/mini2440.git 2483 2484 mminit_loglevel= 2485 [KNL] When CONFIG_DEBUG_MEMORY_INIT is set, this 2486 parameter allows control of the logging verbosity for 2487 the additional memory initialisation checks. A value 2488 of 0 disables mminit logging and a level of 4 will 2489 log everything. Information is printed at KERN_DEBUG 2490 so loglevel=8 may also need to be specified. 2491 2492 module.sig_enforce 2493 [KNL] When CONFIG_MODULE_SIG is set, this means that 2494 modules without (valid) signatures will fail to load. 2495 Note that if CONFIG_MODULE_SIG_FORCE is set, that 2496 is always true, so this option does nothing. 2497 2498 module_blacklist= [KNL] Do not load a comma-separated list of 2499 modules. Useful for debugging problem modules. 2500 2501 mousedev.tap_time= 2502 [MOUSE] Maximum time between finger touching and 2503 leaving touchpad surface for touch to be considered 2504 a tap and be reported as a left button click (for 2505 touchpads working in absolute mode only). 2506 Format: <msecs> 2507 mousedev.xres= [MOUSE] Horizontal screen resolution, used for devices 2508 reporting absolute coordinates, such as tablets 2509 mousedev.yres= [MOUSE] Vertical screen resolution, used for devices 2510 reporting absolute coordinates, such as tablets 2511 2512 movablecore= [KNL,X86,IA-64,PPC] 2513 Format: nn[KMGTPE] | nn% 2514 This parameter is the complement to kernelcore=, it 2515 specifies the amount of memory used for migratable 2516 allocations. If both kernelcore and movablecore is 2517 specified, then kernelcore will be at *least* the 2518 specified value but may be more. If movablecore on its 2519 own is specified, the administrator must be careful 2520 that the amount of memory usable for all allocations 2521 is not too small. 2522 2523 movable_node [KNL] Boot-time switch to make hotplugable memory 2524 NUMA nodes to be movable. This means that the memory 2525 of such nodes will be usable only for movable 2526 allocations which rules out almost all kernel 2527 allocations. Use with caution! 2528 2529 MTD_Partition= [MTD] 2530 Format: <name>,<region-number>,<size>,<offset> 2531 2532 MTD_Region= [MTD] Format: 2533 <name>,<region-number>[,<base>,<size>,<buswidth>,<altbuswidth>] 2534 2535 mtdparts= [MTD] 2536 See drivers/mtd/cmdlinepart.c. 2537 2538 multitce=off [PPC] This parameter disables the use of the pSeries 2539 firmware feature for updating multiple TCE entries 2540 at a time. 2541 2542 onenand.bdry= [HW,MTD] Flex-OneNAND Boundary Configuration 2543 2544 Format: [die0_boundary][,die0_lock][,die1_boundary][,die1_lock] 2545 2546 boundary - index of last SLC block on Flex-OneNAND. 2547 The remaining blocks are configured as MLC blocks. 2548 lock - Configure if Flex-OneNAND boundary should be locked. 2549 Once locked, the boundary cannot be changed. 2550 1 indicates lock status, 0 indicates unlock status. 2551 2552 mtdset= [ARM] 2553 ARM/S3C2412 JIVE boot control 2554 2555 See arch/arm/mach-s3c2412/mach-jive.c 2556 2557 mtouchusb.raw_coordinates= 2558 [HW] Make the MicroTouch USB driver use raw coordinates 2559 ('y', default) or cooked coordinates ('n') 2560 2561 mtrr_chunk_size=nn[KMG] [X86] 2562 used for mtrr cleanup. It is largest continuous chunk 2563 that could hold holes aka. UC entries. 2564 2565 mtrr_gran_size=nn[KMG] [X86] 2566 Used for mtrr cleanup. It is granularity of mtrr block. 2567 Default is 1. 2568 Large value could prevent small alignment from 2569 using up MTRRs. 2570 2571 mtrr_spare_reg_nr=n [X86] 2572 Format: <integer> 2573 Range: 0,7 : spare reg number 2574 Default : 1 2575 Used for mtrr cleanup. It is spare mtrr entries number. 2576 Set to 2 or more if your graphical card needs more. 2577 2578 n2= [NET] SDL Inc. RISCom/N2 synchronous serial card 2579 2580 netdev= [NET] Network devices parameters 2581 Format: <irq>,<io>,<mem_start>,<mem_end>,<name> 2582 Note that mem_start is often overloaded to mean 2583 something different and driver-specific. 2584 This usage is only documented in each driver source 2585 file if at all. 2586 2587 nf_conntrack.acct= 2588 [NETFILTER] Enable connection tracking flow accounting 2589 0 to disable accounting 2590 1 to enable accounting 2591 Default value is 0. 2592 2593 nfsaddrs= [NFS] Deprecated. Use ip= instead. 2594 See Documentation/filesystems/nfs/nfsroot.txt. 2595 2596 nfsroot= [NFS] nfs root filesystem for disk-less boxes. 2597 See Documentation/filesystems/nfs/nfsroot.txt. 2598 2599 nfsrootdebug [NFS] enable nfsroot debugging messages. 2600 See Documentation/filesystems/nfs/nfsroot.txt. 2601 2602 nfs.callback_nr_threads= 2603 [NFSv4] set the total number of threads that the 2604 NFS client will assign to service NFSv4 callback 2605 requests. 2606 2607 nfs.callback_tcpport= 2608 [NFS] set the TCP port on which the NFSv4 callback 2609 channel should listen. 2610 2611 nfs.cache_getent= 2612 [NFS] sets the pathname to the program which is used 2613 to update the NFS client cache entries. 2614 2615 nfs.cache_getent_timeout= 2616 [NFS] sets the timeout after which an attempt to 2617 update a cache entry is deemed to have failed. 2618 2619 nfs.idmap_cache_timeout= 2620 [NFS] set the maximum lifetime for idmapper cache 2621 entries. 2622 2623 nfs.enable_ino64= 2624 [NFS] enable 64-bit inode numbers. 2625 If zero, the NFS client will fake up a 32-bit inode 2626 number for the readdir() and stat() syscalls instead 2627 of returning the full 64-bit number. 2628 The default is to return 64-bit inode numbers. 2629 2630 nfs.max_session_cb_slots= 2631 [NFSv4.1] Sets the maximum number of session 2632 slots the client will assign to the callback 2633 channel. This determines the maximum number of 2634 callbacks the client will process in parallel for 2635 a particular server. 2636 2637 nfs.max_session_slots= 2638 [NFSv4.1] Sets the maximum number of session slots 2639 the client will attempt to negotiate with the server. 2640 This limits the number of simultaneous RPC requests 2641 that the client can send to the NFSv4.1 server. 2642 Note that there is little point in setting this 2643 value higher than the max_tcp_slot_table_limit. 2644 2645 nfs.nfs4_disable_idmapping= 2646 [NFSv4] When set to the default of '1', this option 2647 ensures that both the RPC level authentication 2648 scheme and the NFS level operations agree to use 2649 numeric uids/gids if the mount is using the 2650 'sec=sys' security flavour. In effect it is 2651 disabling idmapping, which can make migration from 2652 legacy NFSv2/v3 systems to NFSv4 easier. 2653 Servers that do not support this mode of operation 2654 will be autodetected by the client, and it will fall 2655 back to using the idmapper. 2656 To turn off this behaviour, set the value to '0'. 2657 nfs.nfs4_unique_id= 2658 [NFS4] Specify an additional fixed unique ident- 2659 ification string that NFSv4 clients can insert into 2660 their nfs_client_id4 string. This is typically a 2661 UUID that is generated at system install time. 2662 2663 nfs.send_implementation_id = 2664 [NFSv4.1] Send client implementation identification 2665 information in exchange_id requests. 2666 If zero, no implementation identification information 2667 will be sent. 2668 The default is to send the implementation identification 2669 information. 2670 2671 nfs.recover_lost_locks = 2672 [NFSv4] Attempt to recover locks that were lost due 2673 to a lease timeout on the server. Please note that 2674 doing this risks data corruption, since there are 2675 no guarantees that the file will remain unchanged 2676 after the locks are lost. 2677 If you want to enable the kernel legacy behaviour of 2678 attempting to recover these locks, then set this 2679 parameter to '1'. 2680 The default parameter value of '0' causes the kernel 2681 not to attempt recovery of lost locks. 2682 2683 nfs4.layoutstats_timer = 2684 [NFSv4.2] Change the rate at which the kernel sends 2685 layoutstats to the pNFS metadata server. 2686 2687 Setting this to value to 0 causes the kernel to use 2688 whatever value is the default set by the layout 2689 driver. A non-zero value sets the minimum interval 2690 in seconds between layoutstats transmissions. 2691 2692 nfsd.nfs4_disable_idmapping= 2693 [NFSv4] When set to the default of '1', the NFSv4 2694 server will return only numeric uids and gids to 2695 clients using auth_sys, and will accept numeric uids 2696 and gids from such clients. This is intended to ease 2697 migration from NFSv2/v3. 2698 2699 nmi_debug= [KNL,SH] Specify one or more actions to take 2700 when a NMI is triggered. 2701 Format: [state][,regs][,debounce][,die] 2702 2703 nmi_watchdog= [KNL,BUGS=X86] Debugging features for SMP kernels 2704 Format: [panic,][nopanic,][num] 2705 Valid num: 0 or 1 2706 0 - turn hardlockup detector in nmi_watchdog off 2707 1 - turn hardlockup detector in nmi_watchdog on 2708 When panic is specified, panic when an NMI watchdog 2709 timeout occurs (or 'nopanic' to override the opposite 2710 default). To disable both hard and soft lockup detectors, 2711 please see 'nowatchdog'. 2712 This is useful when you use a panic=... timeout and 2713 need the box quickly up again. 2714 2715 These settings can be accessed at runtime via 2716 the nmi_watchdog and hardlockup_panic sysctls. 2717 2718 netpoll.carrier_timeout= 2719 [NET] Specifies amount of time (in seconds) that 2720 netpoll should wait for a carrier. By default netpoll 2721 waits 4 seconds. 2722 2723 no387 [BUGS=X86-32] Tells the kernel to use the 387 maths 2724 emulation library even if a 387 maths coprocessor 2725 is present. 2726 2727 no5lvl [X86-64] Disable 5-level paging mode. Forces 2728 kernel to use 4-level paging instead. 2729 2730 no_console_suspend 2731 [HW] Never suspend the console 2732 Disable suspending of consoles during suspend and 2733 hibernate operations. Once disabled, debugging 2734 messages can reach various consoles while the rest 2735 of the system is being put to sleep (ie, while 2736 debugging driver suspend/resume hooks). This may 2737 not work reliably with all consoles, but is known 2738 to work with serial and VGA consoles. 2739 To facilitate more flexible debugging, we also add 2740 console_suspend, a printk module parameter to control 2741 it. Users could use console_suspend (usually 2742 /sys/module/printk/parameters/console_suspend) to 2743 turn on/off it dynamically. 2744 2745 noaliencache [MM, NUMA, SLAB] Disables the allocation of alien 2746 caches in the slab allocator. Saves per-node memory, 2747 but will impact performance. 2748 2749 noalign [KNL,ARM] 2750 2751 noaltinstr [S390] Disables alternative instructions patching 2752 (CPU alternatives feature). 2753 2754 noapic [SMP,APIC] Tells the kernel to not make use of any 2755 IOAPICs that may be present in the system. 2756 2757 noautogroup Disable scheduler automatic task group creation. 2758 2759 nobats [PPC] Do not use BATs for mapping kernel lowmem 2760 on "Classic" PPC cores. 2761 2762 nocache [ARM] 2763 2764 noclflush [BUGS=X86] Don't use the CLFLUSH instruction 2765 2766 nodelayacct [KNL] Disable per-task delay accounting 2767 2768 nodsp [SH] Disable hardware DSP at boot time. 2769 2770 noefi Disable EFI runtime services support. 2771 2772 noexec [IA-64] 2773 2774 noexec [X86] 2775 On X86-32 available only on PAE configured kernels. 2776 noexec=on: enable non-executable mappings (default) 2777 noexec=off: disable non-executable mappings 2778 2779 nosmap [X86] 2780 Disable SMAP (Supervisor Mode Access Prevention) 2781 even if it is supported by processor. 2782 2783 nosmep [X86] 2784 Disable SMEP (Supervisor Mode Execution Prevention) 2785 even if it is supported by processor. 2786 2787 noexec32 [X86-64] 2788 This affects only 32-bit executables. 2789 noexec32=on: enable non-executable mappings (default) 2790 read doesn't imply executable mappings 2791 noexec32=off: disable non-executable mappings 2792 read implies executable mappings 2793 2794 nofpu [MIPS,SH] Disable hardware FPU at boot time. 2795 2796 nofxsr [BUGS=X86-32] Disables x86 floating point extended 2797 register save and restore. The kernel will only save 2798 legacy floating-point registers on task switch. 2799 2800 nohugeiomap [KNL,x86] Disable kernel huge I/O mappings. 2801 2802 nosmt [KNL,S390] Disable symmetric multithreading (SMT). 2803 Equivalent to smt=1. 2804 2805 [KNL,x86] Disable symmetric multithreading (SMT). 2806 nosmt=force: Force disable SMT, cannot be undone 2807 via the sysfs control file. 2808 2809 nospectre_v1 [PPC] Disable mitigations for Spectre Variant 1 (bounds 2810 check bypass). With this option data leaks are possible 2811 in the system. 2812 2813 nospectre_v2 [X86] Disable all mitigations for the Spectre variant 2 2814 (indirect branch prediction) vulnerability. System may 2815 allow data leaks with this option, which is equivalent 2816 to spectre_v2=off. 2817 2818 nospec_store_bypass_disable 2819 [HW] Disable all mitigations for the Speculative Store Bypass vulnerability 2820 2821 noxsave [BUGS=X86] Disables x86 extended register state save 2822 and restore using xsave. The kernel will fallback to 2823 enabling legacy floating-point and sse state. 2824 2825 noxsaveopt [X86] Disables xsaveopt used in saving x86 extended 2826 register states. The kernel will fall back to use 2827 xsave to save the states. By using this parameter, 2828 performance of saving the states is degraded because 2829 xsave doesn't support modified optimization while 2830 xsaveopt supports it on xsaveopt enabled systems. 2831 2832 noxsaves [X86] Disables xsaves and xrstors used in saving and 2833 restoring x86 extended register state in compacted 2834 form of xsave area. The kernel will fall back to use 2835 xsaveopt and xrstor to save and restore the states 2836 in standard form of xsave area. By using this 2837 parameter, xsave area per process might occupy more 2838 memory on xsaves enabled systems. 2839 2840 nohlt [BUGS=ARM,SH] Tells the kernel that the sleep(SH) or 2841 wfi(ARM) instruction doesn't work correctly and not to 2842 use it. This is also useful when using JTAG debugger. 2843 2844 no_file_caps Tells the kernel not to honor file capabilities. The 2845 only way then for a file to be executed with privilege 2846 is to be setuid root or executed by root. 2847 2848 nohalt [IA-64] Tells the kernel not to use the power saving 2849 function PAL_HALT_LIGHT when idle. This increases 2850 power-consumption. On the positive side, it reduces 2851 interrupt wake-up latency, which may improve performance 2852 in certain environments such as networked servers or 2853 real-time systems. 2854 2855 nohibernate [HIBERNATION] Disable hibernation and resume. 2856 2857 nohz= [KNL] Boottime enable/disable dynamic ticks 2858 Valid arguments: on, off 2859 Default: on 2860 2861 nohz_full= [KNL,BOOT,SMP,ISOL] 2862 The argument is a cpu list, as described above. 2863 In kernels built with CONFIG_NO_HZ_FULL=y, set 2864 the specified list of CPUs whose tick will be stopped 2865 whenever possible. The boot CPU will be forced outside 2866 the range to maintain the timekeeping. Any CPUs 2867 in this list will have their RCU callbacks offloaded, 2868 just as if they had also been called out in the 2869 rcu_nocbs= boot parameter. 2870 2871 noiotrap [SH] Disables trapped I/O port accesses. 2872 2873 noirqdebug [X86-32] Disables the code which attempts to detect and 2874 disable unhandled interrupt sources. 2875 2876 no_timer_check [X86,APIC] Disables the code which tests for 2877 broken timer IRQ sources. 2878 2879 noisapnp [ISAPNP] Disables ISA PnP code. 2880 2881 noinitrd [RAM] Tells the kernel not to load any configured 2882 initial RAM disk. 2883 2884 nointremap [X86-64, Intel-IOMMU] Do not enable interrupt 2885 remapping. 2886 [Deprecated - use intremap=off] 2887 2888 nointroute [IA-64] 2889 2890 noinvpcid [X86] Disable the INVPCID cpu feature. 2891 2892 nojitter [IA-64] Disables jitter checking for ITC timers. 2893 2894 no-kvmclock [X86,KVM] Disable paravirtualized KVM clock driver 2895 2896 no-kvmapf [X86,KVM] Disable paravirtualized asynchronous page 2897 fault handling. 2898 2899 no-vmw-sched-clock 2900 [X86,PV_OPS] Disable paravirtualized VMware scheduler 2901 clock and use the default one. 2902 2903 no-steal-acc [X86,KVM] Disable paravirtualized steal time accounting. 2904 steal time is computed, but won't influence scheduler 2905 behaviour 2906 2907 nolapic [X86-32,APIC] Do not enable or use the local APIC. 2908 2909 nolapic_timer [X86-32,APIC] Do not use the local APIC timer. 2910 2911 noltlbs [PPC] Do not use large page/tlb entries for kernel 2912 lowmem mapping on PPC40x and PPC8xx 2913 2914 nomca [IA-64] Disable machine check abort handling 2915 2916 nomce [X86-32] Disable Machine Check Exception 2917 2918 nomfgpt [X86-32] Disable Multi-Function General Purpose 2919 Timer usage (for AMD Geode machines). 2920 2921 nonmi_ipi [X86] Disable using NMI IPIs during panic/reboot to 2922 shutdown the other cpus. Instead use the REBOOT_VECTOR 2923 irq. 2924 2925 nomodule Disable module load 2926 2927 nopat [X86] Disable PAT (page attribute table extension of 2928 pagetables) support. 2929 2930 nopcid [X86-64] Disable the PCID cpu feature. 2931 2932 norandmaps Don't use address space randomization. Equivalent to 2933 echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/randomize_va_space 2934 2935 noreplace-smp [X86-32,SMP] Don't replace SMP instructions 2936 with UP alternatives 2937 2938 nordrand [X86] Disable kernel use of the RDRAND and 2939 RDSEED instructions even if they are supported 2940 by the processor. RDRAND and RDSEED are still 2941 available to user space applications. 2942 2943 noresume [SWSUSP] Disables resume and restores original swap 2944 space. 2945 2946 no-scroll [VGA] Disables scrollback. 2947 This is required for the Braillex ib80-piezo Braille 2948 reader made by F.H. Papenmeier (Germany). 2949 2950 nosbagart [IA-64] 2951 2952 nosep [BUGS=X86-32] Disables x86 SYSENTER/SYSEXIT support. 2953 2954 nosmp [SMP] Tells an SMP kernel to act as a UP kernel, 2955 and disable the IO APIC. legacy for "maxcpus=0". 2956 2957 nosoftlockup [KNL] Disable the soft-lockup detector. 2958 2959 nosync [HW,M68K] Disables sync negotiation for all devices. 2960 2961 nowatchdog [KNL] Disable both lockup detectors, i.e. 2962 soft-lockup and NMI watchdog (hard-lockup). 2963 2964 nowb [ARM] 2965 2966 nox2apic [X86-64,APIC] Do not enable x2APIC mode. 2967 2968 cpu0_hotplug [X86] Turn on CPU0 hotplug feature when 2969 CONFIG_BOOTPARAM_HOTPLUG_CPU0 is off. 2970 Some features depend on CPU0. Known dependencies are: 2971 1. Resume from suspend/hibernate depends on CPU0. 2972 Suspend/hibernate will fail if CPU0 is offline and you 2973 need to online CPU0 before suspend/hibernate. 2974 2. PIC interrupts also depend on CPU0. CPU0 can't be 2975 removed if a PIC interrupt is detected. 2976 It's said poweroff/reboot may depend on CPU0 on some 2977 machines although I haven't seen such issues so far 2978 after CPU0 is offline on a few tested machines. 2979 If the dependencies are under your control, you can 2980 turn on cpu0_hotplug. 2981 2982 nps_mtm_hs_ctr= [KNL,ARC] 2983 This parameter sets the maximum duration, in 2984 cycles, each HW thread of the CTOP can run 2985 without interruptions, before HW switches it. 2986 The actual maximum duration is 16 times this 2987 parameter's value. 2988 Format: integer between 1 and 255 2989 Default: 255 2990 2991 nptcg= [IA-64] Override max number of concurrent global TLB 2992 purges which is reported from either PAL_VM_SUMMARY or 2993 SAL PALO. 2994 2995 nr_cpus= [SMP] Maximum number of processors that an SMP kernel 2996 could support. nr_cpus=n : n >= 1 limits the kernel to 2997 support 'n' processors. It could be larger than the 2998 number of already plugged CPU during bootup, later in 2999 runtime you can physically add extra cpu until it reaches 3000 n. So during boot up some boot time memory for per-cpu 3001 variables need be pre-allocated for later physical cpu 3002 hot plugging. 3003 3004 nr_uarts= [SERIAL] maximum number of UARTs to be registered. 3005 3006 numa_balancing= [KNL,X86] Enable or disable automatic NUMA balancing. 3007 Allowed values are enable and disable 3008 3009 numa_zonelist_order= [KNL, BOOT] Select zonelist order for NUMA. 3010 'node', 'default' can be specified 3011 This can be set from sysctl after boot. 3012 See Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt for details. 3013 3014 ohci1394_dma=early [HW] enable debugging via the ohci1394 driver. 3015 See Documentation/debugging-via-ohci1394.txt for more 3016 info. 3017 3018 olpc_ec_timeout= [OLPC] ms delay when issuing EC commands 3019 Rather than timing out after 20 ms if an EC 3020 command is not properly ACKed, override the length 3021 of the timeout. We have interrupts disabled while 3022 waiting for the ACK, so if this is set too high 3023 interrupts *may* be lost! 3024 3025 omap_mux= [OMAP] Override bootloader pin multiplexing. 3026 Format: <mux_mode0.mode_name=value>... 3027 For example, to override I2C bus2: 3028 omap_mux=i2c2_scl.i2c2_scl=0x100,i2c2_sda.i2c2_sda=0x100 3029 3030 oprofile.timer= [HW] 3031 Use timer interrupt instead of performance counters 3032 3033 oprofile.cpu_type= Force an oprofile cpu type 3034 This might be useful if you have an older oprofile 3035 userland or if you want common events. 3036 Format: { arch_perfmon } 3037 arch_perfmon: [X86] Force use of architectural 3038 perfmon on Intel CPUs instead of the 3039 CPU specific event set. 3040 timer: [X86] Force use of architectural NMI 3041 timer mode (see also oprofile.timer 3042 for generic hr timer mode) 3043 3044 oops=panic Always panic on oopses. Default is to just kill the 3045 process, but there is a small probability of 3046 deadlocking the machine. 3047 This will also cause panics on machine check exceptions. 3048 Useful together with panic=30 to trigger a reboot. 3049 3050 page_owner= [KNL] Boot-time page_owner enabling option. 3051 Storage of the information about who allocated 3052 each page is disabled in default. With this switch, 3053 we can turn it on. 3054 on: enable the feature 3055 3056 page_poison= [KNL] Boot-time parameter changing the state of 3057 poisoning on the buddy allocator, available with 3058 CONFIG_PAGE_POISONING=y. 3059 off: turn off poisoning (default) 3060 on: turn on poisoning 3061 3062 panic= [KNL] Kernel behaviour on panic: delay <timeout> 3063 timeout > 0: seconds before rebooting 3064 timeout = 0: wait forever 3065 timeout < 0: reboot immediately 3066 Format: <timeout> 3067 3068 panic_on_warn panic() instead of WARN(). Useful to cause kdump 3069 on a WARN(). 3070 3071 crash_kexec_post_notifiers 3072 Run kdump after running panic-notifiers and dumping 3073 kmsg. This only for the users who doubt kdump always 3074 succeeds in any situation. 3075 Note that this also increases risks of kdump failure, 3076 because some panic notifiers can make the crashed 3077 kernel more unstable. 3078 3079 parkbd.port= [HW] Parallel port number the keyboard adapter is 3080 connected to, default is 0. 3081 Format: <parport#> 3082 parkbd.mode= [HW] Parallel port keyboard adapter mode of operation, 3083 0 for XT, 1 for AT (default is AT). 3084 Format: <mode> 3085 3086 parport= [HW,PPT] Specify parallel ports. 0 disables. 3087 Format: { 0 | auto | 0xBBB[,IRQ[,DMA]] } 3088 Use 'auto' to force the driver to use any 3089 IRQ/DMA settings detected (the default is to 3090 ignore detected IRQ/DMA settings because of 3091 possible conflicts). You can specify the base 3092 address, IRQ, and DMA settings; IRQ and DMA 3093 should be numbers, or 'auto' (for using detected 3094 settings on that particular port), or 'nofifo' 3095 (to avoid using a FIFO even if it is detected). 3096 Parallel ports are assigned in the order they 3097 are specified on the command line, starting 3098 with parport0. 3099 3100 parport_init_mode= [HW,PPT] 3101 Configure VIA parallel port to operate in 3102 a specific mode. This is necessary on Pegasos 3103 computer where firmware has no options for setting 3104 up parallel port mode and sets it to spp. 3105 Currently this function knows 686a and 8231 chips. 3106 Format: [spp|ps2|epp|ecp|ecpepp] 3107 3108 pause_on_oops= 3109 Halt all CPUs after the first oops has been printed for 3110 the specified number of seconds. This is to be used if 3111 your oopses keep scrolling off the screen. 3112 3113 pcbit= [HW,ISDN] 3114 3115 pcd. [PARIDE] 3116 See header of drivers/block/paride/pcd.c. 3117 See also Documentation/blockdev/paride.txt. 3118 3119 pci=option[,option...] [PCI] various PCI subsystem options. 3120 3121 Some options herein operate on a specific device 3122 or a set of devices (<pci_dev>). These are 3123 specified in one of the following formats: 3124 3125 [<domain>:]<bus>:<dev>.<func>[/<dev>.<func>]* 3126 pci:<vendor>:<device>[:<subvendor>:<subdevice>] 3127 3128 Note: the first format specifies a PCI 3129 bus/device/function address which may change 3130 if new hardware is inserted, if motherboard 3131 firmware changes, or due to changes caused 3132 by other kernel parameters. If the 3133 domain is left unspecified, it is 3134 taken to be zero. Optionally, a path 3135 to a device through multiple device/function 3136 addresses can be specified after the base 3137 address (this is more robust against 3138 renumbering issues). The second format 3139 selects devices using IDs from the 3140 configuration space which may match multiple 3141 devices in the system. 3142 3143 earlydump dump PCI config space before the kernel 3144 changes anything 3145 off [X86] don't probe for the PCI bus 3146 bios [X86-32] force use of PCI BIOS, don't access 3147 the hardware directly. Use this if your machine 3148 has a non-standard PCI host bridge. 3149 nobios [X86-32] disallow use of PCI BIOS, only direct 3150 hardware access methods are allowed. Use this 3151 if you experience crashes upon bootup and you 3152 suspect they are caused by the BIOS. 3153 conf1 [X86] Force use of PCI Configuration Access 3154 Mechanism 1 (config address in IO port 0xCF8, 3155 data in IO port 0xCFC, both 32-bit). 3156 conf2 [X86] Force use of PCI Configuration Access 3157 Mechanism 2 (IO port 0xCF8 is an 8-bit port for 3158 the function, IO port 0xCFA, also 8-bit, sets 3159 bus number. The config space is then accessed 3160 through ports 0xC000-0xCFFF). 3161 See http://wiki.osdev.org/PCI for more info 3162 on the configuration access mechanisms. 3163 noaer [PCIE] If the PCIEAER kernel config parameter is 3164 enabled, this kernel boot option can be used to 3165 disable the use of PCIE advanced error reporting. 3166 nodomains [PCI] Disable support for multiple PCI 3167 root domains (aka PCI segments, in ACPI-speak). 3168 nommconf [X86] Disable use of MMCONFIG for PCI 3169 Configuration 3170 check_enable_amd_mmconf [X86] check for and enable 3171 properly configured MMIO access to PCI 3172 config space on AMD family 10h CPU 3173 nomsi [MSI] If the PCI_MSI kernel config parameter is 3174 enabled, this kernel boot option can be used to 3175 disable the use of MSI interrupts system-wide. 3176 noioapicquirk [APIC] Disable all boot interrupt quirks. 3177 Safety option to keep boot IRQs enabled. This 3178 should never be necessary. 3179 ioapicreroute [APIC] Enable rerouting of boot IRQs to the 3180 primary IO-APIC for bridges that cannot disable 3181 boot IRQs. This fixes a source of spurious IRQs 3182 when the system masks IRQs. 3183 noioapicreroute [APIC] Disable workaround that uses the 3184 boot IRQ equivalent of an IRQ that connects to 3185 a chipset where boot IRQs cannot be disabled. 3186 The opposite of ioapicreroute. 3187 biosirq [X86-32] Use PCI BIOS calls to get the interrupt 3188 routing table. These calls are known to be buggy 3189 on several machines and they hang the machine 3190 when used, but on other computers it's the only 3191 way to get the interrupt routing table. Try 3192 this option if the kernel is unable to allocate 3193 IRQs or discover secondary PCI buses on your 3194 motherboard. 3195 rom [X86] Assign address space to expansion ROMs. 3196 Use with caution as certain devices share 3197 address decoders between ROMs and other 3198 resources. 3199 norom [X86] Do not assign address space to 3200 expansion ROMs that do not already have 3201 BIOS assigned address ranges. 3202 nobar [X86] Do not assign address space to the 3203 BARs that weren't assigned by the BIOS. 3204 irqmask=0xMMMM [X86] Set a bit mask of IRQs allowed to be 3205 assigned automatically to PCI devices. You can 3206 make the kernel exclude IRQs of your ISA cards 3207 this way. 3208 pirqaddr=0xAAAAA [X86] Specify the physical address 3209 of the PIRQ table (normally generated 3210 by the BIOS) if it is outside the 3211 F0000h-100000h range. 3212 lastbus=N [X86] Scan all buses thru bus #N. Can be 3213 useful if the kernel is unable to find your 3214 secondary buses and you want to tell it 3215 explicitly which ones they are. 3216 assign-busses [X86] Always assign all PCI bus 3217 numbers ourselves, overriding 3218 whatever the firmware may have done. 3219 usepirqmask [X86] Honor the possible IRQ mask stored 3220 in the BIOS $PIR table. This is needed on 3221 some systems with broken BIOSes, notably 3222 some HP Pavilion N5400 and Omnibook XE3 3223 notebooks. This will have no effect if ACPI 3224 IRQ routing is enabled. 3225 noacpi [X86] Do not use ACPI for IRQ routing 3226 or for PCI scanning. 3227 use_crs [X86] Use PCI host bridge window information 3228 from ACPI. On BIOSes from 2008 or later, this 3229 is enabled by default. If you need to use this, 3230 please report a bug. 3231 nocrs [X86] Ignore PCI host bridge windows from ACPI. 3232 If you need to use this, please report a bug. 3233 routeirq Do IRQ routing for all PCI devices. 3234 This is normally done in pci_enable_device(), 3235 so this option is a temporary workaround 3236 for broken drivers that don't call it. 3237 skip_isa_align [X86] do not align io start addr, so can 3238 handle more pci cards 3239 noearly [X86] Don't do any early type 1 scanning. 3240 This might help on some broken boards which 3241 machine check when some devices' config space 3242 is read. But various workarounds are disabled 3243 and some IOMMU drivers will not work. 3244 bfsort Sort PCI devices into breadth-first order. 3245 This sorting is done to get a device 3246 order compatible with older (<= 2.4) kernels. 3247 nobfsort Don't sort PCI devices into breadth-first order. 3248 pcie_bus_tune_off Disable PCIe MPS (Max Payload Size) 3249 tuning and use the BIOS-configured MPS defaults. 3250 pcie_bus_safe Set every device's MPS to the largest value 3251 supported by all devices below the root complex. 3252 pcie_bus_perf Set device MPS to the largest allowable MPS 3253 based on its parent bus. Also set MRRS (Max 3254 Read Request Size) to the largest supported 3255 value (no larger than the MPS that the device 3256 or bus can support) for best performance. 3257 pcie_bus_peer2peer Set every device's MPS to 128B, which 3258 every device is guaranteed to support. This 3259 configuration allows peer-to-peer DMA between 3260 any pair of devices, possibly at the cost of 3261 reduced performance. This also guarantees 3262 that hot-added devices will work. 3263 cbiosize=nn[KMG] The fixed amount of bus space which is 3264 reserved for the CardBus bridge's IO window. 3265 The default value is 256 bytes. 3266 cbmemsize=nn[KMG] The fixed amount of bus space which is 3267 reserved for the CardBus bridge's memory 3268 window. The default value is 64 megabytes. 3269 resource_alignment= 3270 Format: 3271 [<order of align>@]<pci_dev>[; ...] 3272 Specifies alignment and device to reassign 3273 aligned memory resources. How to 3274 specify the device is described above. 3275 If <order of align> is not specified, 3276 PAGE_SIZE is used as alignment. 3277 PCI-PCI bridge can be specified, if resource 3278 windows need to be expanded. 3279 To specify the alignment for several 3280 instances of a device, the PCI vendor, 3281 device, subvendor, and subdevice may be 3282 specified, e.g., 4096@pci:8086:9c22:103c:198f 3283 ecrc= Enable/disable PCIe ECRC (transaction layer 3284 end-to-end CRC checking). 3285 bios: Use BIOS/firmware settings. This is the 3286 the default. 3287 off: Turn ECRC off 3288 on: Turn ECRC on. 3289 hpiosize=nn[KMG] The fixed amount of bus space which is 3290 reserved for hotplug bridge's IO window. 3291 Default size is 256 bytes. 3292 hpmemsize=nn[KMG] The fixed amount of bus space which is 3293 reserved for hotplug bridge's memory window. 3294 Default size is 2 megabytes. 3295 hpbussize=nn The minimum amount of additional bus numbers 3296 reserved for buses below a hotplug bridge. 3297 Default is 1. 3298 realloc= Enable/disable reallocating PCI bridge resources 3299 if allocations done by BIOS are too small to 3300 accommodate resources required by all child 3301 devices. 3302 off: Turn realloc off 3303 on: Turn realloc on 3304 realloc same as realloc=on 3305 noari do not use PCIe ARI. 3306 noats [PCIE, Intel-IOMMU, AMD-IOMMU] 3307 do not use PCIe ATS (and IOMMU device IOTLB). 3308 pcie_scan_all Scan all possible PCIe devices. Otherwise we 3309 only look for one device below a PCIe downstream 3310 port. 3311 big_root_window Try to add a big 64bit memory window to the PCIe 3312 root complex on AMD CPUs. Some GFX hardware 3313 can resize a BAR to allow access to all VRAM. 3314 Adding the window is slightly risky (it may 3315 conflict with unreported devices), so this 3316 taints the kernel. 3317 disable_acs_redir=<pci_dev>[; ...] 3318 Specify one or more PCI devices (in the format 3319 specified above) separated by semicolons. 3320 Each device specified will have the PCI ACS 3321 redirect capabilities forced off which will 3322 allow P2P traffic between devices through 3323 bridges without forcing it upstream. Note: 3324 this removes isolation between devices and 3325 may put more devices in an IOMMU group. 3326 3327 pcie_aspm= [PCIE] Forcibly enable or disable PCIe Active State Power 3328 Management. 3329 off Disable ASPM. 3330 force Enable ASPM even on devices that claim not to support it. 3331 WARNING: Forcing ASPM on may cause system lockups. 3332 3333 pcie_ports= [PCIE] PCIe port services handling: 3334 native Use native PCIe services (PME, AER, DPC, PCIe hotplug) 3335 even if the platform doesn't give the OS permission to 3336 use them. This may cause conflicts if the platform 3337 also tries to use these services. 3338 compat Disable native PCIe services (PME, AER, DPC, PCIe 3339 hotplug). 3340 3341 pcie_port_pm= [PCIE] PCIe port power management handling: 3342 off Disable power management of all PCIe ports 3343 force Forcibly enable power management of all PCIe ports 3344 3345 pcie_pme= [PCIE,PM] Native PCIe PME signaling options: 3346 nomsi Do not use MSI for native PCIe PME signaling (this makes 3347 all PCIe root ports use INTx for all services). 3348 3349 pcmv= [HW,PCMCIA] BadgePAD 4 3350 3351 pd_ignore_unused 3352 [PM] 3353 Keep all power-domains already enabled by bootloader on, 3354 even if no driver has claimed them. This is useful 3355 for debug and development, but should not be 3356 needed on a platform with proper driver support. 3357 3358 pd. [PARIDE] 3359 See Documentation/blockdev/paride.txt. 3360 3361 pdcchassis= [PARISC,HW] Disable/Enable PDC Chassis Status codes at 3362 boot time. 3363 Format: { 0 | 1 } 3364 See arch/parisc/kernel/pdc_chassis.c 3365 3366 percpu_alloc= Select which percpu first chunk allocator to use. 3367 Currently supported values are "embed" and "page". 3368 Archs may support subset or none of the selections. 3369 See comments in mm/percpu.c for details on each 3370 allocator. This parameter is primarily for debugging 3371 and performance comparison. 3372 3373 pf. [PARIDE] 3374 See Documentation/blockdev/paride.txt. 3375 3376 pg. [PARIDE] 3377 See Documentation/blockdev/paride.txt. 3378 3379 pirq= [SMP,APIC] Manual mp-table setup 3380 See Documentation/x86/i386/IO-APIC.txt. 3381 3382 plip= [PPT,NET] Parallel port network link 3383 Format: { parport<nr> | timid | 0 } 3384 See also Documentation/admin-guide/parport.rst. 3385 3386 pmtmr= [X86] Manual setup of pmtmr I/O Port. 3387 Override pmtimer IOPort with a hex value. 3388 e.g. pmtmr=0x508 3389 3390 pnp.debug=1 [PNP] 3391 Enable PNP debug messages (depends on the 3392 CONFIG_PNP_DEBUG_MESSAGES option). Change at run-time 3393 via /sys/module/pnp/parameters/debug. We always show 3394 current resource usage; turning this on also shows 3395 possible settings and some assignment information. 3396 3397 pnpacpi= [ACPI] 3398 { off } 3399 3400 pnpbios= [ISAPNP] 3401 { on | off | curr | res | no-curr | no-res } 3402 3403 pnp_reserve_irq= 3404 [ISAPNP] Exclude IRQs for the autoconfiguration 3405 3406 pnp_reserve_dma= 3407 [ISAPNP] Exclude DMAs for the autoconfiguration 3408 3409 pnp_reserve_io= [ISAPNP] Exclude I/O ports for the autoconfiguration 3410 Ranges are in pairs (I/O port base and size). 3411 3412 pnp_reserve_mem= 3413 [ISAPNP] Exclude memory regions for the 3414 autoconfiguration. 3415 Ranges are in pairs (memory base and size). 3416 3417 ports= [IP_VS_FTP] IPVS ftp helper module 3418 Default is 21. 3419 Up to 8 (IP_VS_APP_MAX_PORTS) ports 3420 may be specified. 3421 Format: <port>,<port>.... 3422 3423 powersave=off [PPC] This option disables power saving features. 3424 It specifically disables cpuidle and sets the 3425 platform machine description specific power_save 3426 function to NULL. On Idle the CPU just reduces 3427 execution priority. 3428 3429 ppc_strict_facility_enable 3430 [PPC] This option catches any kernel floating point, 3431 Altivec, VSX and SPE outside of regions specifically 3432 allowed (eg kernel_enable_fpu()/kernel_disable_fpu()). 3433 There is some performance impact when enabling this. 3434 3435 ppc_tm= [PPC] 3436 Format: {"off"} 3437 Disable Hardware Transactional Memory 3438 3439 print-fatal-signals= 3440 [KNL] debug: print fatal signals 3441 3442 If enabled, warn about various signal handling 3443 related application anomalies: too many signals, 3444 too many POSIX.1 timers, fatal signals causing a 3445 coredump - etc. 3446 3447 If you hit the warning due to signal overflow, 3448 you might want to try "ulimit -i unlimited". 3449 3450 default: off. 3451 3452 printk.always_kmsg_dump= 3453 Trigger kmsg_dump for cases other than kernel oops or 3454 panics 3455 Format: <bool> (1/Y/y=enable, 0/N/n=disable) 3456 default: disabled 3457 3458 printk.devkmsg={on,off,ratelimit} 3459 Control writing to /dev/kmsg. 3460 on - unlimited logging to /dev/kmsg from userspace 3461 off - logging to /dev/kmsg disabled 3462 ratelimit - ratelimit the logging 3463 Default: ratelimit 3464 3465 printk.time= Show timing data prefixed to each printk message line 3466 Format: <bool> (1/Y/y=enable, 0/N/n=disable) 3467 3468 processor.max_cstate= [HW,ACPI] 3469 Limit processor to maximum C-state 3470 max_cstate=9 overrides any DMI blacklist limit. 3471 3472 processor.nocst [HW,ACPI] 3473 Ignore the _CST method to determine C-states, 3474 instead using the legacy FADT method 3475 3476 profile= [KNL] Enable kernel profiling via /proc/profile 3477 Format: [<profiletype>,]<number> 3478 Param: <profiletype>: "schedule", "sleep", or "kvm" 3479 [defaults to kernel profiling] 3480 Param: "schedule" - profile schedule points. 3481 Param: "sleep" - profile D-state sleeping (millisecs). 3482 Requires CONFIG_SCHEDSTATS 3483 Param: "kvm" - profile VM exits. 3484 Param: <number> - step/bucket size as a power of 2 for 3485 statistical time based profiling. 3486 3487 prompt_ramdisk= [RAM] List of RAM disks to prompt for floppy disk 3488 before loading. 3489 See Documentation/blockdev/ramdisk.txt. 3490 3491 psmouse.proto= [HW,MOUSE] Highest PS2 mouse protocol extension to 3492 probe for; one of (bare|imps|exps|lifebook|any). 3493 psmouse.rate= [HW,MOUSE] Set desired mouse report rate, in reports 3494 per second. 3495 psmouse.resetafter= [HW,MOUSE] 3496 Try to reset the device after so many bad packets 3497 (0 = never). 3498 psmouse.resolution= 3499 [HW,MOUSE] Set desired mouse resolution, in dpi. 3500 psmouse.smartscroll= 3501 [HW,MOUSE] Controls Logitech smartscroll autorepeat. 3502 0 = disabled, 1 = enabled (default). 3503 3504 pstore.backend= Specify the name of the pstore backend to use 3505 3506 pt. [PARIDE] 3507 See Documentation/blockdev/paride.txt. 3508 3509 pti= [X86_64] Control Page Table Isolation of user and 3510 kernel address spaces. Disabling this feature 3511 removes hardening, but improves performance of 3512 system calls and interrupts. 3513 3514 on - unconditionally enable 3515 off - unconditionally disable 3516 auto - kernel detects whether your CPU model is 3517 vulnerable to issues that PTI mitigates 3518 3519 Not specifying this option is equivalent to pti=auto. 3520 3521 nopti [X86_64] 3522 Equivalent to pti=off 3523 3524 pty.legacy_count= 3525 [KNL] Number of legacy pty's. Overwrites compiled-in 3526 default number. 3527 3528 quiet [KNL] Disable most log messages 3529 3530 r128= [HW,DRM] 3531 3532 raid= [HW,RAID] 3533 See Documentation/admin-guide/md.rst. 3534 3535 ramdisk_size= [RAM] Sizes of RAM disks in kilobytes 3536 See Documentation/blockdev/ramdisk.txt. 3537 3538 random.trust_cpu={on,off} 3539 [KNL] Enable or disable trusting the use of the 3540 CPU's random number generator (if available) to 3541 fully seed the kernel's CRNG. Default is controlled 3542 by CONFIG_RANDOM_TRUST_CPU. 3543 3544 ras=option[,option,...] [KNL] RAS-specific options 3545 3546 cec_disable [X86] 3547 Disable the Correctable Errors Collector, 3548 see CONFIG_RAS_CEC help text. 3549 3550 rcu_nocbs= [KNL] 3551 The argument is a cpu list, as described above. 3552 3553 In kernels built with CONFIG_RCU_NOCB_CPU=y, set 3554 the specified list of CPUs to be no-callback CPUs. 3555 Invocation of these CPUs' RCU callbacks will be 3556 offloaded to "rcuox/N" kthreads created for that 3557 purpose, where "x" is "p" for RCU-preempt, and 3558 "s" for RCU-sched, and "N" is the CPU number. 3559 This reduces OS jitter on the offloaded CPUs, 3560 which can be useful for HPC and real-time 3561 workloads. It can also improve energy efficiency 3562 for asymmetric multiprocessors. 3563 3564 rcu_nocb_poll [KNL] 3565 Rather than requiring that offloaded CPUs 3566 (specified by rcu_nocbs= above) explicitly 3567 awaken the corresponding "rcuoN" kthreads, 3568 make these kthreads poll for callbacks. 3569 This improves the real-time response for the 3570 offloaded CPUs by relieving them of the need to 3571 wake up the corresponding kthread, but degrades 3572 energy efficiency by requiring that the kthreads 3573 periodically wake up to do the polling. 3574 3575 rcutree.blimit= [KNL] 3576 Set maximum number of finished RCU callbacks to 3577 process in one batch. 3578 3579 rcutree.dump_tree= [KNL] 3580 Dump the structure of the rcu_node combining tree 3581 out at early boot. This is used for diagnostic 3582 purposes, to verify correct tree setup. 3583 3584 rcutree.gp_cleanup_delay= [KNL] 3585 Set the number of jiffies to delay each step of 3586 RCU grace-period cleanup. 3587 3588 rcutree.gp_init_delay= [KNL] 3589 Set the number of jiffies to delay each step of 3590 RCU grace-period initialization. 3591 3592 rcutree.gp_preinit_delay= [KNL] 3593 Set the number of jiffies to delay each step of 3594 RCU grace-period pre-initialization, that is, 3595 the propagation of recent CPU-hotplug changes up 3596 the rcu_node combining tree. 3597 3598 rcutree.rcu_fanout_exact= [KNL] 3599 Disable autobalancing of the rcu_node combining 3600 tree. This is used by rcutorture, and might 3601 possibly be useful for architectures having high 3602 cache-to-cache transfer latencies. 3603 3604 rcutree.rcu_fanout_leaf= [KNL] 3605 Change the number of CPUs assigned to each 3606 leaf rcu_node structure. Useful for very 3607 large systems, which will choose the value 64, 3608 and for NUMA systems with large remote-access 3609 latencies, which will choose a value aligned 3610 with the appropriate hardware boundaries. 3611 3612 rcutree.jiffies_till_sched_qs= [KNL] 3613 Set required age in jiffies for a 3614 given grace period before RCU starts 3615 soliciting quiescent-state help from 3616 rcu_note_context_switch(). If not specified, the 3617 kernel will calculate a value based on the most 3618 recent settings of rcutree.jiffies_till_first_fqs 3619 and rcutree.jiffies_till_next_fqs. 3620 This calculated value may be viewed in 3621 rcutree.jiffies_to_sched_qs. Any attempt to 3622 set rcutree.jiffies_to_sched_qs will be 3623 cheerfully overwritten. 3624 3625 rcutree.jiffies_till_first_fqs= [KNL] 3626 Set delay from grace-period initialization to 3627 first attempt to force quiescent states. 3628 Units are jiffies, minimum value is zero, 3629 and maximum value is HZ. 3630 3631 rcutree.jiffies_till_next_fqs= [KNL] 3632 Set delay between subsequent attempts to force 3633 quiescent states. Units are jiffies, minimum 3634 value is one, and maximum value is HZ. 3635 3636 rcutree.kthread_prio= [KNL,BOOT] 3637 Set the SCHED_FIFO priority of the RCU per-CPU 3638 kthreads (rcuc/N). This value is also used for 3639 the priority of the RCU boost threads (rcub/N) 3640 and for the RCU grace-period kthreads (rcu_bh, 3641 rcu_preempt, and rcu_sched). If RCU_BOOST is 3642 set, valid values are 1-99 and the default is 1 3643 (the least-favored priority). Otherwise, when 3644 RCU_BOOST is not set, valid values are 0-99 and 3645 the default is zero (non-realtime operation). 3646 3647 rcutree.rcu_nocb_leader_stride= [KNL] 3648 Set the number of NOCB kthread groups, which 3649 defaults to the square root of the number of 3650 CPUs. Larger numbers reduces the wakeup overhead 3651 on the per-CPU grace-period kthreads, but increases 3652 that same overhead on each group's leader. 3653 3654 rcutree.qhimark= [KNL] 3655 Set threshold of queued RCU callbacks beyond which 3656 batch limiting is disabled. 3657 3658 rcutree.qlowmark= [KNL] 3659 Set threshold of queued RCU callbacks below which 3660 batch limiting is re-enabled. 3661 3662 rcutree.rcu_idle_gp_delay= [KNL] 3663 Set wakeup interval for idle CPUs that have 3664 RCU callbacks (RCU_FAST_NO_HZ=y). 3665 3666 rcutree.rcu_idle_lazy_gp_delay= [KNL] 3667 Set wakeup interval for idle CPUs that have 3668 only "lazy" RCU callbacks (RCU_FAST_NO_HZ=y). 3669 Lazy RCU callbacks are those which RCU can 3670 prove do nothing more than free memory. 3671 3672 rcutree.rcu_kick_kthreads= [KNL] 3673 Cause the grace-period kthread to get an extra 3674 wake_up() if it sleeps three times longer than 3675 it should at force-quiescent-state time. 3676 This wake_up() will be accompanied by a 3677 WARN_ONCE() splat and an ftrace_dump(). 3678 3679 rcuperf.gp_async= [KNL] 3680 Measure performance of asynchronous 3681 grace-period primitives such as call_rcu(). 3682 3683 rcuperf.gp_async_max= [KNL] 3684 Specify the maximum number of outstanding 3685 callbacks per writer thread. When a writer 3686 thread exceeds this limit, it invokes the 3687 corresponding flavor of rcu_barrier() to allow 3688 previously posted callbacks to drain. 3689 3690 rcuperf.gp_exp= [KNL] 3691 Measure performance of expedited synchronous 3692 grace-period primitives. 3693 3694 rcuperf.holdoff= [KNL] 3695 Set test-start holdoff period. The purpose of 3696 this parameter is to delay the start of the 3697 test until boot completes in order to avoid 3698 interference. 3699 3700 rcuperf.nreaders= [KNL] 3701 Set number of RCU readers. The value -1 selects 3702 N, where N is the number of CPUs. A value 3703 "n" less than -1 selects N-n+1, where N is again 3704 the number of CPUs. For example, -2 selects N 3705 (the number of CPUs), -3 selects N+1, and so on. 3706 A value of "n" less than or equal to -N selects 3707 a single reader. 3708 3709 rcuperf.nwriters= [KNL] 3710 Set number of RCU writers. The values operate 3711 the same as for rcuperf.nreaders. 3712 N, where N is the number of CPUs 3713 3714 rcuperf.perf_type= [KNL] 3715 Specify the RCU implementation to test. 3716 3717 rcuperf.shutdown= [KNL] 3718 Shut the system down after performance tests 3719 complete. This is useful for hands-off automated 3720 testing. 3721 3722 rcuperf.verbose= [KNL] 3723 Enable additional printk() statements. 3724 3725 rcuperf.writer_holdoff= [KNL] 3726 Write-side holdoff between grace periods, 3727 in microseconds. The default of zero says 3728 no holdoff. 3729 3730 rcutorture.cbflood_inter_holdoff= [KNL] 3731 Set holdoff time (jiffies) between successive 3732 callback-flood tests. 3733 3734 rcutorture.cbflood_intra_holdoff= [KNL] 3735 Set holdoff time (jiffies) between successive 3736 bursts of callbacks within a given callback-flood 3737 test. 3738 3739 rcutorture.cbflood_n_burst= [KNL] 3740 Set the number of bursts making up a given 3741 callback-flood test. Set this to zero to 3742 disable callback-flood testing. 3743 3744 rcutorture.cbflood_n_per_burst= [KNL] 3745 Set the number of callbacks to be registered 3746 in a given burst of a callback-flood test. 3747 3748 rcutorture.fqs_duration= [KNL] 3749 Set duration of force_quiescent_state bursts 3750 in microseconds. 3751 3752 rcutorture.fqs_holdoff= [KNL] 3753 Set holdoff time within force_quiescent_state bursts 3754 in microseconds. 3755 3756 rcutorture.fqs_stutter= [KNL] 3757 Set wait time between force_quiescent_state bursts 3758 in seconds. 3759 3760 rcutorture.gp_cond= [KNL] 3761 Use conditional/asynchronous update-side 3762 primitives, if available. 3763 3764 rcutorture.gp_exp= [KNL] 3765 Use expedited update-side primitives, if available. 3766 3767 rcutorture.gp_normal= [KNL] 3768 Use normal (non-expedited) asynchronous 3769 update-side primitives, if available. 3770 3771 rcutorture.gp_sync= [KNL] 3772 Use normal (non-expedited) synchronous 3773 update-side primitives, if available. If all 3774 of rcutorture.gp_cond=, rcutorture.gp_exp=, 3775 rcutorture.gp_normal=, and rcutorture.gp_sync= 3776 are zero, rcutorture acts as if is interpreted 3777 they are all non-zero. 3778 3779 rcutorture.n_barrier_cbs= [KNL] 3780 Set callbacks/threads for rcu_barrier() testing. 3781 3782 rcutorture.nfakewriters= [KNL] 3783 Set number of concurrent RCU writers. These just 3784 stress RCU, they don't participate in the actual 3785 test, hence the "fake". 3786 3787 rcutorture.nreaders= [KNL] 3788 Set number of RCU readers. The value -1 selects 3789 N-1, where N is the number of CPUs. A value 3790 "n" less than -1 selects N-n-2, where N is again 3791 the number of CPUs. For example, -2 selects N 3792 (the number of CPUs), -3 selects N+1, and so on. 3793 3794 rcutorture.object_debug= [KNL] 3795 Enable debug-object double-call_rcu() testing. 3796 3797 rcutorture.onoff_holdoff= [KNL] 3798 Set time (s) after boot for CPU-hotplug testing. 3799 3800 rcutorture.onoff_interval= [KNL] 3801 Set time (jiffies) between CPU-hotplug operations, 3802 or zero to disable CPU-hotplug testing. 3803 3804 rcutorture.shuffle_interval= [KNL] 3805 Set task-shuffle interval (s). Shuffling tasks 3806 allows some CPUs to go into dyntick-idle mode 3807 during the rcutorture test. 3808 3809 rcutorture.shutdown_secs= [KNL] 3810 Set time (s) after boot system shutdown. This 3811 is useful for hands-off automated testing. 3812 3813 rcutorture.stall_cpu= [KNL] 3814 Duration of CPU stall (s) to test RCU CPU stall 3815 warnings, zero to disable. 3816 3817 rcutorture.stall_cpu_holdoff= [KNL] 3818 Time to wait (s) after boot before inducing stall. 3819 3820 rcutorture.stall_cpu_irqsoff= [KNL] 3821 Disable interrupts while stalling if set. 3822 3823 rcutorture.stat_interval= [KNL] 3824 Time (s) between statistics printk()s. 3825 3826 rcutorture.stutter= [KNL] 3827 Time (s) to stutter testing, for example, specifying 3828 five seconds causes the test to run for five seconds, 3829 wait for five seconds, and so on. This tests RCU's 3830 ability to transition abruptly to and from idle. 3831 3832 rcutorture.test_boost= [KNL] 3833 Test RCU priority boosting? 0=no, 1=maybe, 2=yes. 3834 "Maybe" means test if the RCU implementation 3835 under test support RCU priority boosting. 3836 3837 rcutorture.test_boost_duration= [KNL] 3838 Duration (s) of each individual boost test. 3839 3840 rcutorture.test_boost_interval= [KNL] 3841 Interval (s) between each boost test. 3842 3843 rcutorture.test_no_idle_hz= [KNL] 3844 Test RCU's dyntick-idle handling. See also the 3845 rcutorture.shuffle_interval parameter. 3846 3847 rcutorture.torture_type= [KNL] 3848 Specify the RCU implementation to test. 3849 3850 rcutorture.verbose= [KNL] 3851 Enable additional printk() statements. 3852 3853 rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_suppress= [KNL] 3854 Suppress RCU CPU stall warning messages. 3855 3856 rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_timeout= [KNL] 3857 Set timeout for RCU CPU stall warning messages. 3858 3859 rcupdate.rcu_expedited= [KNL] 3860 Use expedited grace-period primitives, for 3861 example, synchronize_rcu_expedited() instead 3862 of synchronize_rcu(). This reduces latency, 3863 but can increase CPU utilization, degrade 3864 real-time latency, and degrade energy efficiency. 3865 No effect on CONFIG_TINY_RCU kernels. 3866 3867 rcupdate.rcu_normal= [KNL] 3868 Use only normal grace-period primitives, 3869 for example, synchronize_rcu() instead of 3870 synchronize_rcu_expedited(). This improves 3871 real-time latency, CPU utilization, and 3872 energy efficiency, but can expose users to 3873 increased grace-period latency. This parameter 3874 overrides rcupdate.rcu_expedited. No effect on 3875 CONFIG_TINY_RCU kernels. 3876 3877 rcupdate.rcu_normal_after_boot= [KNL] 3878 Once boot has completed (that is, after 3879 rcu_end_inkernel_boot() has been invoked), use 3880 only normal grace-period primitives. No effect 3881 on CONFIG_TINY_RCU kernels. 3882 3883 rcupdate.rcu_task_stall_timeout= [KNL] 3884 Set timeout in jiffies for RCU task stall warning 3885 messages. Disable with a value less than or equal 3886 to zero. 3887 3888 rcupdate.rcu_self_test= [KNL] 3889 Run the RCU early boot self tests 3890 3891 rdinit= [KNL] 3892 Format: <full_path> 3893 Run specified binary instead of /init from the ramdisk, 3894 used for early userspace startup. See initrd. 3895 3896 rdt= [HW,X86,RDT] 3897 Turn on/off individual RDT features. List is: 3898 cmt, mbmtotal, mbmlocal, l3cat, l3cdp, l2cat, l2cdp, 3899 mba. 3900 E.g. to turn on cmt and turn off mba use: 3901 rdt=cmt,!mba 3902 3903 reboot= [KNL] 3904 Format (x86 or x86_64): 3905 [w[arm] | c[old] | h[ard] | s[oft] | g[pio]] \ 3906 [[,]s[mp]#### \ 3907 [[,]b[ios] | a[cpi] | k[bd] | t[riple] | e[fi] | p[ci]] \ 3908 [[,]f[orce] 3909 Where reboot_mode is one of warm (soft) or cold (hard) or gpio, 3910 reboot_type is one of bios, acpi, kbd, triple, efi, or pci, 3911 reboot_force is either force or not specified, 3912 reboot_cpu is s[mp]#### with #### being the processor 3913 to be used for rebooting. 3914 3915 relax_domain_level= 3916 [KNL, SMP] Set scheduler's default relax_domain_level. 3917 See Documentation/cgroup-v1/cpusets.txt. 3918 3919 reserve= [KNL,BUGS] Force kernel to ignore I/O ports or memory 3920 Format: <base1>,<size1>[,<base2>,<size2>,...] 3921 Reserve I/O ports or memory so the kernel won't use 3922 them. If <base> is less than 0x10000, the region 3923 is assumed to be I/O ports; otherwise it is memory. 3924 3925 reservetop= [X86-32] 3926 Format: nn[KMG] 3927 Reserves a hole at the top of the kernel virtual 3928 address space. 3929 3930 reservelow= [X86] 3931 Format: nn[K] 3932 Set the amount of memory to reserve for BIOS at 3933 the bottom of the address space. 3934 3935 reset_devices [KNL] Force drivers to reset the underlying device 3936 during initialization. 3937 3938 resume= [SWSUSP] 3939 Specify the partition device for software suspend 3940 Format: 3941 {/dev/<dev> | PARTUUID=<uuid> | <int>:<int> | <hex>} 3942 3943 resume_offset= [SWSUSP] 3944 Specify the offset from the beginning of the partition 3945 given by "resume=" at which the swap header is located, 3946 in <PAGE_SIZE> units (needed only for swap files). 3947 See Documentation/power/swsusp-and-swap-files.txt 3948 3949 resumedelay= [HIBERNATION] Delay (in seconds) to pause before attempting to 3950 read the resume files 3951 3952 resumewait [HIBERNATION] Wait (indefinitely) for resume device to show up. 3953 Useful for devices that are detected asynchronously 3954 (e.g. USB and MMC devices). 3955 3956 hibernate= [HIBERNATION] 3957 noresume Don't check if there's a hibernation image 3958 present during boot. 3959 nocompress Don't compress/decompress hibernation images. 3960 no Disable hibernation and resume. 3961 protect_image Turn on image protection during restoration 3962 (that will set all pages holding image data 3963 during restoration read-only). 3964 3965 retain_initrd [RAM] Keep initrd memory after extraction 3966 3967 rfkill.default_state= 3968 0 "airplane mode". All wifi, bluetooth, wimax, gps, fm, 3969 etc. communication is blocked by default. 3970 1 Unblocked. 3971 3972 rfkill.master_switch_mode= 3973 0 The "airplane mode" button does nothing. 3974 1 The "airplane mode" button toggles between everything 3975 blocked and the previous configuration. 3976 2 The "airplane mode" button toggles between everything 3977 blocked and everything unblocked. 3978 3979 rhash_entries= [KNL,NET] 3980 Set number of hash buckets for route cache 3981 3982 ring3mwait=disable 3983 [KNL] Disable ring 3 MONITOR/MWAIT feature on supported 3984 CPUs. 3985 3986 ro [KNL] Mount root device read-only on boot 3987 3988 rodata= [KNL] 3989 on Mark read-only kernel memory as read-only (default). 3990 off Leave read-only kernel memory writable for debugging. 3991 3992 rockchip.usb_uart 3993 Enable the uart passthrough on the designated usb port 3994 on Rockchip SoCs. When active, the signals of the 3995 debug-uart get routed to the D+ and D- pins of the usb 3996 port and the regular usb controller gets disabled. 3997 3998 root= [KNL] Root filesystem 3999 See name_to_dev_t comment in init/do_mounts.c. 4000 4001 rootdelay= [KNL] Delay (in seconds) to pause before attempting to 4002 mount the root filesystem 4003 4004 rootflags= [KNL] Set root filesystem mount option string 4005 4006 rootfstype= [KNL] Set root filesystem type 4007 4008 rootwait [KNL] Wait (indefinitely) for root device to show up. 4009 Useful for devices that are detected asynchronously 4010 (e.g. USB and MMC devices). 4011 4012 rproc_mem=nn[KMG][@address] 4013 [KNL,ARM,CMA] Remoteproc physical memory block. 4014 Memory area to be used by remote processor image, 4015 managed by CMA. 4016 4017 rw [KNL] Mount root device read-write on boot 4018 4019 S [KNL] Run init in single mode 4020 4021 s390_iommu= [HW,S390] 4022 Set s390 IOTLB flushing mode 4023 strict 4024 With strict flushing every unmap operation will result in 4025 an IOTLB flush. Default is lazy flushing before reuse, 4026 which is faster. 4027 4028 sa1100ir [NET] 4029 See drivers/net/irda/sa1100_ir.c. 4030 4031 sbni= [NET] Granch SBNI12 leased line adapter 4032 4033 sched_debug [KNL] Enables verbose scheduler debug messages. 4034 4035 schedstats= [KNL,X86] Enable or disable scheduled statistics. 4036 Allowed values are enable and disable. This feature 4037 incurs a small amount of overhead in the scheduler 4038 but is useful for debugging and performance tuning. 4039 4040 skew_tick= [KNL] Offset the periodic timer tick per cpu to mitigate 4041 xtime_lock contention on larger systems, and/or RCU lock 4042 contention on all systems with CONFIG_MAXSMP set. 4043 Format: { "0" | "1" } 4044 0 -- disable. (may be 1 via CONFIG_CMDLINE="skew_tick=1" 4045 1 -- enable. 4046 Note: increases power consumption, thus should only be 4047 enabled if running jitter sensitive (HPC/RT) workloads. 4048 4049 security= [SECURITY] Choose a security module to enable at boot. 4050 If this boot parameter is not specified, only the first 4051 security module asking for security registration will be 4052 loaded. An invalid security module name will be treated 4053 as if no module has been chosen. 4054 4055 selinux= [SELINUX] Disable or enable SELinux at boot time. 4056 Format: { "0" | "1" } 4057 See security/selinux/Kconfig help text. 4058 0 -- disable. 4059 1 -- enable. 4060 Default value is set via kernel config option. 4061 If enabled at boot time, /selinux/disable can be used 4062 later to disable prior to initial policy load. 4063 4064 apparmor= [APPARMOR] Disable or enable AppArmor at boot time 4065 Format: { "0" | "1" } 4066 See security/apparmor/Kconfig help text 4067 0 -- disable. 4068 1 -- enable. 4069 Default value is set via kernel config option. 4070 4071 serialnumber [BUGS=X86-32] 4072 4073 shapers= [NET] 4074 Maximal number of shapers. 4075 4076 simeth= [IA-64] 4077 simscsi= 4078 4079 slram= [HW,MTD] 4080 4081 slab_nomerge [MM] 4082 Disable merging of slabs with similar size. May be 4083 necessary if there is some reason to distinguish 4084 allocs to different slabs, especially in hardened 4085 environments where the risk of heap overflows and 4086 layout control by attackers can usually be 4087 frustrated by disabling merging. This will reduce 4088 most of the exposure of a heap attack to a single 4089 cache (risks via metadata attacks are mostly 4090 unchanged). Debug options disable merging on their 4091 own. 4092 For more information see Documentation/vm/slub.rst. 4093 4094 slab_max_order= [MM, SLAB] 4095 Determines the maximum allowed order for slabs. 4096 A high setting may cause OOMs due to memory 4097 fragmentation. Defaults to 1 for systems with 4098 more than 32MB of RAM, 0 otherwise. 4099 4100 slub_debug[=options[,slabs]] [MM, SLUB] 4101 Enabling slub_debug allows one to determine the 4102 culprit if slab objects become corrupted. Enabling 4103 slub_debug can create guard zones around objects and 4104 may poison objects when not in use. Also tracks the 4105 last alloc / free. For more information see 4106 Documentation/vm/slub.rst. 4107 4108 slub_memcg_sysfs= [MM, SLUB] 4109 Determines whether to enable sysfs directories for 4110 memory cgroup sub-caches. 1 to enable, 0 to disable. 4111 The default is determined by CONFIG_SLUB_MEMCG_SYSFS_ON. 4112 Enabling this can lead to a very high number of debug 4113 directories and files being created under 4114 /sys/kernel/slub. 4115 4116 slub_max_order= [MM, SLUB] 4117 Determines the maximum allowed order for slabs. 4118 A high setting may cause OOMs due to memory 4119 fragmentation. For more information see 4120 Documentation/vm/slub.rst. 4121 4122 slub_min_objects= [MM, SLUB] 4123 The minimum number of objects per slab. SLUB will 4124 increase the slab order up to slub_max_order to 4125 generate a sufficiently large slab able to contain 4126 the number of objects indicated. The higher the number 4127 of objects the smaller the overhead of tracking slabs 4128 and the less frequently locks need to be acquired. 4129 For more information see Documentation/vm/slub.rst. 4130 4131 slub_min_order= [MM, SLUB] 4132 Determines the minimum page order for slabs. Must be 4133 lower than slub_max_order. 4134 For more information see Documentation/vm/slub.rst. 4135 4136 slub_nomerge [MM, SLUB] 4137 Same with slab_nomerge. This is supported for legacy. 4138 See slab_nomerge for more information. 4139 4140 smart2= [HW] 4141 Format: <io1>[,<io2>[,...,<io8>]] 4142 4143 smsc-ircc2.nopnp [HW] Don't use PNP to discover SMC devices 4144 smsc-ircc2.ircc_cfg= [HW] Device configuration I/O port 4145 smsc-ircc2.ircc_sir= [HW] SIR base I/O port 4146 smsc-ircc2.ircc_fir= [HW] FIR base I/O port 4147 smsc-ircc2.ircc_irq= [HW] IRQ line 4148 smsc-ircc2.ircc_dma= [HW] DMA channel 4149 smsc-ircc2.ircc_transceiver= [HW] Transceiver type: 4150 0: Toshiba Satellite 1800 (GP data pin select) 4151 1: Fast pin select (default) 4152 2: ATC IRMode 4153 4154 smt [KNL,S390] Set the maximum number of threads (logical 4155 CPUs) to use per physical CPU on systems capable of 4156 symmetric multithreading (SMT). Will be capped to the 4157 actual hardware limit. 4158 Format: <integer> 4159 Default: -1 (no limit) 4160 4161 softlockup_panic= 4162 [KNL] Should the soft-lockup detector generate panics. 4163 Format: <integer> 4164 4165 A nonzero value instructs the soft-lockup detector 4166 to panic the machine when a soft-lockup occurs. This 4167 is also controlled by CONFIG_BOOTPARAM_SOFTLOCKUP_PANIC 4168 which is the respective build-time switch to that 4169 functionality. 4170 4171 softlockup_all_cpu_backtrace= 4172 [KNL] Should the soft-lockup detector generate 4173 backtraces on all cpus. 4174 Format: <integer> 4175 4176 sonypi.*= [HW] Sony Programmable I/O Control Device driver 4177 See Documentation/laptops/sonypi.txt 4178 4179 spectre_v2= [X86] Control mitigation of Spectre variant 2 4180 (indirect branch speculation) vulnerability. 4181 4182 on - unconditionally enable 4183 off - unconditionally disable 4184 auto - kernel detects whether your CPU model is 4185 vulnerable 4186 4187 Selecting 'on' will, and 'auto' may, choose a 4188 mitigation method at run time according to the 4189 CPU, the available microcode, the setting of the 4190 CONFIG_RETPOLINE configuration option, and the 4191 compiler with which the kernel was built. 4192 4193 Specific mitigations can also be selected manually: 4194 4195 retpoline - replace indirect branches 4196 retpoline,generic - google's original retpoline 4197 retpoline,amd - AMD-specific minimal thunk 4198 4199 Not specifying this option is equivalent to 4200 spectre_v2=auto. 4201 4202 spec_store_bypass_disable= 4203 [HW] Control Speculative Store Bypass (SSB) Disable mitigation 4204 (Speculative Store Bypass vulnerability) 4205 4206 Certain CPUs are vulnerable to an exploit against a 4207 a common industry wide performance optimization known 4208 as "Speculative Store Bypass" in which recent stores 4209 to the same memory location may not be observed by 4210 later loads during speculative execution. The idea 4211 is that such stores are unlikely and that they can 4212 be detected prior to instruction retirement at the 4213 end of a particular speculation execution window. 4214 4215 In vulnerable processors, the speculatively forwarded 4216 store can be used in a cache side channel attack, for 4217 example to read memory to which the attacker does not 4218 directly have access (e.g. inside sandboxed code). 4219 4220 This parameter controls whether the Speculative Store 4221 Bypass optimization is used. 4222 4223 On x86 the options are: 4224 4225 on - Unconditionally disable Speculative Store Bypass 4226 off - Unconditionally enable Speculative Store Bypass 4227 auto - Kernel detects whether the CPU model contains an 4228 implementation of Speculative Store Bypass and 4229 picks the most appropriate mitigation. If the 4230 CPU is not vulnerable, "off" is selected. If the 4231 CPU is vulnerable the default mitigation is 4232 architecture and Kconfig dependent. See below. 4233 prctl - Control Speculative Store Bypass per thread 4234 via prctl. Speculative Store Bypass is enabled 4235 for a process by default. The state of the control 4236 is inherited on fork. 4237 seccomp - Same as "prctl" above, but all seccomp threads 4238 will disable SSB unless they explicitly opt out. 4239 4240 Default mitigations: 4241 X86: If CONFIG_SECCOMP=y "seccomp", otherwise "prctl" 4242 4243 On powerpc the options are: 4244 4245 on,auto - On Power8 and Power9 insert a store-forwarding 4246 barrier on kernel entry and exit. On Power7 4247 perform a software flush on kernel entry and 4248 exit. 4249 off - No action. 4250 4251 Not specifying this option is equivalent to 4252 spec_store_bypass_disable=auto. 4253 4254 spia_io_base= [HW,MTD] 4255 spia_fio_base= 4256 spia_pedr= 4257 spia_peddr= 4258 4259 srcutree.counter_wrap_check [KNL] 4260 Specifies how frequently to check for 4261 grace-period sequence counter wrap for the 4262 srcu_data structure's ->srcu_gp_seq_needed field. 4263 The greater the number of bits set in this kernel 4264 parameter, the less frequently counter wrap will 4265 be checked for. Note that the bottom two bits 4266 are ignored. 4267 4268 srcutree.exp_holdoff [KNL] 4269 Specifies how many nanoseconds must elapse 4270 since the end of the last SRCU grace period for 4271 a given srcu_struct until the next normal SRCU 4272 grace period will be considered for automatic 4273 expediting. Set to zero to disable automatic 4274 expediting. 4275 4276 ssbd= [ARM64,HW] 4277 Speculative Store Bypass Disable control 4278 4279 On CPUs that are vulnerable to the Speculative 4280 Store Bypass vulnerability and offer a 4281 firmware based mitigation, this parameter 4282 indicates how the mitigation should be used: 4283 4284 force-on: Unconditionally enable mitigation for 4285 for both kernel and userspace 4286 force-off: Unconditionally disable mitigation for 4287 for both kernel and userspace 4288 kernel: Always enable mitigation in the 4289 kernel, and offer a prctl interface 4290 to allow userspace to register its 4291 interest in being mitigated too. 4292 4293 stack_guard_gap= [MM] 4294 override the default stack gap protection. The value 4295 is in page units and it defines how many pages prior 4296 to (for stacks growing down) resp. after (for stacks 4297 growing up) the main stack are reserved for no other 4298 mapping. Default value is 256 pages. 4299 4300 stacktrace [FTRACE] 4301 Enabled the stack tracer on boot up. 4302 4303 stacktrace_filter=[function-list] 4304 [FTRACE] Limit the functions that the stack tracer 4305 will trace at boot up. function-list is a comma separated 4306 list of functions. This list can be changed at run 4307 time by the stack_trace_filter file in the debugfs 4308 tracing directory. Note, this enables stack tracing 4309 and the stacktrace above is not needed. 4310 4311 sti= [PARISC,HW] 4312 Format: <num> 4313 Set the STI (builtin display/keyboard on the HP-PARISC 4314 machines) console (graphic card) which should be used 4315 as the initial boot-console. 4316 See also comment in drivers/video/console/sticore.c. 4317 4318 sti_font= [HW] 4319 See comment in drivers/video/console/sticore.c. 4320 4321 stifb= [HW] 4322 Format: bpp:<bpp1>[:<bpp2>[:<bpp3>...]] 4323 4324 sunrpc.min_resvport= 4325 sunrpc.max_resvport= 4326 [NFS,SUNRPC] 4327 SunRPC servers often require that client requests 4328 originate from a privileged port (i.e. a port in the 4329 range 0 < portnr < 1024). 4330 An administrator who wishes to reserve some of these 4331 ports for other uses may adjust the range that the 4332 kernel's sunrpc client considers to be privileged 4333 using these two parameters to set the minimum and 4334 maximum port values. 4335 4336 sunrpc.svc_rpc_per_connection_limit= 4337 [NFS,SUNRPC] 4338 Limit the number of requests that the server will 4339 process in parallel from a single connection. 4340 The default value is 0 (no limit). 4341 4342 sunrpc.pool_mode= 4343 [NFS] 4344 Control how the NFS server code allocates CPUs to 4345 service thread pools. Depending on how many NICs 4346 you have and where their interrupts are bound, this 4347 option will affect which CPUs will do NFS serving. 4348 Note: this parameter cannot be changed while the 4349 NFS server is running. 4350 4351 auto the server chooses an appropriate mode 4352 automatically using heuristics 4353 global a single global pool contains all CPUs 4354 percpu one pool for each CPU 4355 pernode one pool for each NUMA node (equivalent 4356 to global on non-NUMA machines) 4357 4358 sunrpc.tcp_slot_table_entries= 4359 sunrpc.udp_slot_table_entries= 4360 [NFS,SUNRPC] 4361 Sets the upper limit on the number of simultaneous 4362 RPC calls that can be sent from the client to a 4363 server. Increasing these values may allow you to 4364 improve throughput, but will also increase the 4365 amount of memory reserved for use by the client. 4366 4367 suspend.pm_test_delay= 4368 [SUSPEND] 4369 Sets the number of seconds to remain in a suspend test 4370 mode before resuming the system (see 4371 /sys/power/pm_test). Only available when CONFIG_PM_DEBUG 4372 is set. Default value is 5. 4373 4374 swapaccount=[0|1] 4375 [KNL] Enable accounting of swap in memory resource 4376 controller if no parameter or 1 is given or disable 4377 it if 0 is given (See Documentation/cgroup-v1/memory.txt) 4378 4379 swiotlb= [ARM,IA-64,PPC,MIPS,X86] 4380 Format: { <int> | force | noforce } 4381 <int> -- Number of I/O TLB slabs 4382 force -- force using of bounce buffers even if they 4383 wouldn't be automatically used by the kernel 4384 noforce -- Never use bounce buffers (for debugging) 4385 4386 switches= [HW,M68k] 4387 4388 sysfs.deprecated=0|1 [KNL] 4389 Enable/disable old style sysfs layout for old udev 4390 on older distributions. When this option is enabled 4391 very new udev will not work anymore. When this option 4392 is disabled (or CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED not compiled) 4393 in older udev will not work anymore. 4394 Default depends on CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED_V2 set in 4395 the kernel configuration. 4396 4397 sysrq_always_enabled 4398 [KNL] 4399 Ignore sysrq setting - this boot parameter will 4400 neutralize any effect of /proc/sys/kernel/sysrq. 4401 Useful for debugging. 4402 4403 tcpmhash_entries= [KNL,NET] 4404 Set the number of tcp_metrics_hash slots. 4405 Default value is 8192 or 16384 depending on total 4406 ram pages. This is used to specify the TCP metrics 4407 cache size. See Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt 4408 "tcp_no_metrics_save" section for more details. 4409 4410 tdfx= [HW,DRM] 4411 4412 test_suspend= [SUSPEND][,N] 4413 Specify "mem" (for Suspend-to-RAM) or "standby" (for 4414 standby suspend) or "freeze" (for suspend type freeze) 4415 as the system sleep state during system startup with 4416 the optional capability to repeat N number of times. 4417 The system is woken from this state using a 4418 wakeup-capable RTC alarm. 4419 4420 thash_entries= [KNL,NET] 4421 Set number of hash buckets for TCP connection 4422 4423 thermal.act= [HW,ACPI] 4424 -1: disable all active trip points in all thermal zones 4425 <degrees C>: override all lowest active trip points 4426 4427 thermal.crt= [HW,ACPI] 4428 -1: disable all critical trip points in all thermal zones 4429 <degrees C>: override all critical trip points 4430 4431 thermal.nocrt= [HW,ACPI] 4432 Set to disable actions on ACPI thermal zone 4433 critical and hot trip points. 4434 4435 thermal.off= [HW,ACPI] 4436 1: disable ACPI thermal control 4437 4438 thermal.psv= [HW,ACPI] 4439 -1: disable all passive trip points 4440 <degrees C>: override all passive trip points to this 4441 value 4442 4443 thermal.tzp= [HW,ACPI] 4444 Specify global default ACPI thermal zone polling rate 4445 <deci-seconds>: poll all this frequency 4446 0: no polling (default) 4447 4448 threadirqs [KNL] 4449 Force threading of all interrupt handlers except those 4450 marked explicitly IRQF_NO_THREAD. 4451 4452 tmem [KNL,XEN] 4453 Enable the Transcendent memory driver if built-in. 4454 4455 tmem.cleancache=0|1 [KNL, XEN] 4456 Default is on (1). Disable the usage of the cleancache 4457 API to send anonymous pages to the hypervisor. 4458 4459 tmem.frontswap=0|1 [KNL, XEN] 4460 Default is on (1). Disable the usage of the frontswap 4461 API to send swap pages to the hypervisor. If disabled 4462 the selfballooning and selfshrinking are force disabled. 4463 4464 tmem.selfballooning=0|1 [KNL, XEN] 4465 Default is on (1). Disable the driving of swap pages 4466 to the hypervisor. 4467 4468 tmem.selfshrinking=0|1 [KNL, XEN] 4469 Default is on (1). Partial swapoff that immediately 4470 transfers pages from Xen hypervisor back to the 4471 kernel based on different criteria. 4472 4473 topology= [S390] 4474 Format: {off | on} 4475 Specify if the kernel should make use of the cpu 4476 topology information if the hardware supports this. 4477 The scheduler will make use of this information and 4478 e.g. base its process migration decisions on it. 4479 Default is on. 4480 4481 topology_updates= [KNL, PPC, NUMA] 4482 Format: {off} 4483 Specify if the kernel should ignore (off) 4484 topology updates sent by the hypervisor to this 4485 LPAR. 4486 4487 tp720= [HW,PS2] 4488 4489 tpm_suspend_pcr=[HW,TPM] 4490 Format: integer pcr id 4491 Specify that at suspend time, the tpm driver 4492 should extend the specified pcr with zeros, 4493 as a workaround for some chips which fail to 4494 flush the last written pcr on TPM_SaveState. 4495 This will guarantee that all the other pcrs 4496 are saved. 4497 4498 trace_buf_size=nn[KMG] 4499 [FTRACE] will set tracing buffer size on each cpu. 4500 4501 trace_event=[event-list] 4502 [FTRACE] Set and start specified trace events in order 4503 to facilitate early boot debugging. The event-list is a 4504 comma separated list of trace events to enable. See 4505 also Documentation/trace/events.rst 4506 4507 trace_options=[option-list] 4508 [FTRACE] Enable or disable tracer options at boot. 4509 The option-list is a comma delimited list of options 4510 that can be enabled or disabled just as if you were 4511 to echo the option name into 4512 4513 /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/trace_options 4514 4515 For example, to enable stacktrace option (to dump the 4516 stack trace of each event), add to the command line: 4517 4518 trace_options=stacktrace 4519 4520 See also Documentation/trace/ftrace.rst "trace options" 4521 section. 4522 4523 tp_printk[FTRACE] 4524 Have the tracepoints sent to printk as well as the 4525 tracing ring buffer. This is useful for early boot up 4526 where the system hangs or reboots and does not give the 4527 option for reading the tracing buffer or performing a 4528 ftrace_dump_on_oops. 4529 4530 To turn off having tracepoints sent to printk, 4531 echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/tracepoint_printk 4532 Note, echoing 1 into this file without the 4533 tracepoint_printk kernel cmdline option has no effect. 4534 4535 ** CAUTION ** 4536 4537 Having tracepoints sent to printk() and activating high 4538 frequency tracepoints such as irq or sched, can cause 4539 the system to live lock. 4540 4541 traceoff_on_warning 4542 [FTRACE] enable this option to disable tracing when a 4543 warning is hit. This turns off "tracing_on". Tracing can 4544 be enabled again by echoing '1' into the "tracing_on" 4545 file located in /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/ 4546 4547 This option is useful, as it disables the trace before 4548 the WARNING dump is called, which prevents the trace to 4549 be filled with content caused by the warning output. 4550 4551 This option can also be set at run time via the sysctl 4552 option: kernel/traceoff_on_warning 4553 4554 transparent_hugepage= 4555 [KNL] 4556 Format: [always|madvise|never] 4557 Can be used to control the default behavior of the system 4558 with respect to transparent hugepages. 4559 See Documentation/admin-guide/mm/transhuge.rst 4560 for more details. 4561 4562 tsc= Disable clocksource stability checks for TSC. 4563 Format: <string> 4564 [x86] reliable: mark tsc clocksource as reliable, this 4565 disables clocksource verification at runtime, as well 4566 as the stability checks done at bootup. Used to enable 4567 high-resolution timer mode on older hardware, and in 4568 virtualized environment. 4569 [x86] noirqtime: Do not use TSC to do irq accounting. 4570 Used to run time disable IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING on any 4571 platforms where RDTSC is slow and this accounting 4572 can add overhead. 4573 [x86] unstable: mark the TSC clocksource as unstable, this 4574 marks the TSC unconditionally unstable at bootup and 4575 avoids any further wobbles once the TSC watchdog notices. 4576 4577 turbografx.map[2|3]= [HW,JOY] 4578 TurboGraFX parallel port interface 4579 Format: 4580 <port#>,<js1>,<js2>,<js3>,<js4>,<js5>,<js6>,<js7> 4581 See also Documentation/input/devices/joystick-parport.rst 4582 4583 udbg-immortal [PPC] When debugging early kernel crashes that 4584 happen after console_init() and before a proper 4585 console driver takes over, this boot options might 4586 help "seeing" what's going on. 4587 4588 uhash_entries= [KNL,NET] 4589 Set number of hash buckets for UDP/UDP-Lite connections 4590 4591 uhci-hcd.ignore_oc= 4592 [USB] Ignore overcurrent events (default N). 4593 Some badly-designed motherboards generate lots of 4594 bogus events, for ports that aren't wired to 4595 anything. Set this parameter to avoid log spamming. 4596 Note that genuine overcurrent events won't be 4597 reported either. 4598 4599 unknown_nmi_panic 4600 [X86] Cause panic on unknown NMI. 4601 4602 usbcore.authorized_default= 4603 [USB] Default USB device authorization: 4604 (default -1 = authorized except for wireless USB, 4605 0 = not authorized, 1 = authorized) 4606 4607 usbcore.autosuspend= 4608 [USB] The autosuspend time delay (in seconds) used 4609 for newly-detected USB devices (default 2). This 4610 is the time required before an idle device will be 4611 autosuspended. Devices for which the delay is set 4612 to a negative value won't be autosuspended at all. 4613 4614 usbcore.usbfs_snoop= 4615 [USB] Set to log all usbfs traffic (default 0 = off). 4616 4617 usbcore.usbfs_snoop_max= 4618 [USB] Maximum number of bytes to snoop in each URB 4619 (default = 65536). 4620 4621 usbcore.blinkenlights= 4622 [USB] Set to cycle leds on hubs (default 0 = off). 4623 4624 usbcore.old_scheme_first= 4625 [USB] Start with the old device initialization 4626 scheme, applies only to low and full-speed devices 4627 (default 0 = off). 4628 4629 usbcore.usbfs_memory_mb= 4630 [USB] Memory limit (in MB) for buffers allocated by 4631 usbfs (default = 16, 0 = max = 2047). 4632 4633 usbcore.use_both_schemes= 4634 [USB] Try the other device initialization scheme 4635 if the first one fails (default 1 = enabled). 4636 4637 usbcore.initial_descriptor_timeout= 4638 [USB] Specifies timeout for the initial 64-byte 4639 USB_REQ_GET_DESCRIPTOR request in milliseconds 4640 (default 5000 = 5.0 seconds). 4641 4642 usbcore.nousb [USB] Disable the USB subsystem 4643 4644 usbcore.quirks= 4645 [USB] A list of quirk entries to augment the built-in 4646 usb core quirk list. List entries are separated by 4647 commas. Each entry has the form 4648 VendorID:ProductID:Flags. The IDs are 4-digit hex 4649 numbers and Flags is a set of letters. Each letter 4650 will change the built-in quirk; setting it if it is 4651 clear and clearing it if it is set. The letters have 4652 the following meanings: 4653 a = USB_QUIRK_STRING_FETCH_255 (string 4654 descriptors must not be fetched using 4655 a 255-byte read); 4656 b = USB_QUIRK_RESET_RESUME (device can't resume 4657 correctly so reset it instead); 4658 c = USB_QUIRK_NO_SET_INTF (device can't handle 4659 Set-Interface requests); 4660 d = USB_QUIRK_CONFIG_INTF_STRINGS (device can't 4661 handle its Configuration or Interface 4662 strings); 4663 e = USB_QUIRK_RESET (device can't be reset 4664 (e.g morph devices), don't use reset); 4665 f = USB_QUIRK_HONOR_BNUMINTERFACES (device has 4666 more interface descriptions than the 4667 bNumInterfaces count, and can't handle 4668 talking to these interfaces); 4669 g = USB_QUIRK_DELAY_INIT (device needs a pause 4670 during initialization, after we read 4671 the device descriptor); 4672 h = USB_QUIRK_LINEAR_UFRAME_INTR_BINTERVAL (For 4673 high speed and super speed interrupt 4674 endpoints, the USB 2.0 and USB 3.0 spec 4675 require the interval in microframes (1 4676 microframe = 125 microseconds) to be 4677 calculated as interval = 2 ^ 4678 (bInterval-1). 4679 Devices with this quirk report their 4680 bInterval as the result of this 4681 calculation instead of the exponent 4682 variable used in the calculation); 4683 i = USB_QUIRK_DEVICE_QUALIFIER (device can't 4684 handle device_qualifier descriptor 4685 requests); 4686 j = USB_QUIRK_IGNORE_REMOTE_WAKEUP (device 4687 generates spurious wakeup, ignore 4688 remote wakeup capability); 4689 k = USB_QUIRK_NO_LPM (device can't handle Link 4690 Power Management); 4691 l = USB_QUIRK_LINEAR_FRAME_INTR_BINTERVAL 4692 (Device reports its bInterval as linear 4693 frames instead of the USB 2.0 4694 calculation); 4695 m = USB_QUIRK_DISCONNECT_SUSPEND (Device needs 4696 to be disconnected before suspend to 4697 prevent spurious wakeup); 4698 n = USB_QUIRK_DELAY_CTRL_MSG (Device needs a 4699 pause after every control message); 4700 Example: quirks=0781:5580:bk,0a5c:5834:gij 4701 4702 usbhid.mousepoll= 4703 [USBHID] The interval which mice are to be polled at. 4704 4705 usbhid.jspoll= 4706 [USBHID] The interval which joysticks are to be polled at. 4707 4708 usbhid.kbpoll= 4709 [USBHID] The interval which keyboards are to be polled at. 4710 4711 usb-storage.delay_use= 4712 [UMS] The delay in seconds before a new device is 4713 scanned for Logical Units (default 1). 4714 4715 usb-storage.quirks= 4716 [UMS] A list of quirks entries to supplement or 4717 override the built-in unusual_devs list. List 4718 entries are separated by commas. Each entry has 4719 the form VID:PID:Flags where VID and PID are Vendor 4720 and Product ID values (4-digit hex numbers) and 4721 Flags is a set of characters, each corresponding 4722 to a common usb-storage quirk flag as follows: 4723 a = SANE_SENSE (collect more than 18 bytes 4724 of sense data); 4725 b = BAD_SENSE (don't collect more than 18 4726 bytes of sense data); 4727 c = FIX_CAPACITY (decrease the reported 4728 device capacity by one sector); 4729 d = NO_READ_DISC_INFO (don't use 4730 READ_DISC_INFO command); 4731 e = NO_READ_CAPACITY_16 (don't use 4732 READ_CAPACITY_16 command); 4733 f = NO_REPORT_OPCODES (don't use report opcodes 4734 command, uas only); 4735 g = MAX_SECTORS_240 (don't transfer more than 4736 240 sectors at a time, uas only); 4737 h = CAPACITY_HEURISTICS (decrease the 4738 reported device capacity by one 4739 sector if the number is odd); 4740 i = IGNORE_DEVICE (don't bind to this 4741 device); 4742 j = NO_REPORT_LUNS (don't use report luns 4743 command, uas only); 4744 l = NOT_LOCKABLE (don't try to lock and 4745 unlock ejectable media); 4746 m = MAX_SECTORS_64 (don't transfer more 4747 than 64 sectors = 32 KB at a time); 4748 n = INITIAL_READ10 (force a retry of the 4749 initial READ(10) command); 4750 o = CAPACITY_OK (accept the capacity 4751 reported by the device); 4752 p = WRITE_CACHE (the device cache is ON 4753 by default); 4754 r = IGNORE_RESIDUE (the device reports 4755 bogus residue values); 4756 s = SINGLE_LUN (the device has only one 4757 Logical Unit); 4758 t = NO_ATA_1X (don't allow ATA(12) and ATA(16) 4759 commands, uas only); 4760 u = IGNORE_UAS (don't bind to the uas driver); 4761 w = NO_WP_DETECT (don't test whether the 4762 medium is write-protected). 4763 y = ALWAYS_SYNC (issue a SYNCHRONIZE_CACHE 4764 even if the device claims no cache) 4765 Example: quirks=0419:aaf5:rl,0421:0433:rc 4766 4767 user_debug= [KNL,ARM] 4768 Format: <int> 4769 See arch/arm/Kconfig.debug help text. 4770 1 - undefined instruction events 4771 2 - system calls 4772 4 - invalid data aborts 4773 8 - SIGSEGV faults 4774 16 - SIGBUS faults 4775 Example: user_debug=31 4776 4777 userpte= 4778 [X86] Flags controlling user PTE allocations. 4779 4780 nohigh = do not allocate PTE pages in 4781 HIGHMEM regardless of setting 4782 of CONFIG_HIGHPTE. 4783 4784 vdso= [X86,SH] 4785 On X86_32, this is an alias for vdso32=. Otherwise: 4786 4787 vdso=1: enable VDSO (the default) 4788 vdso=0: disable VDSO mapping 4789 4790 vdso32= [X86] Control the 32-bit vDSO 4791 vdso32=1: enable 32-bit VDSO 4792 vdso32=0 or vdso32=2: disable 32-bit VDSO 4793 4794 See the help text for CONFIG_COMPAT_VDSO for more 4795 details. If CONFIG_COMPAT_VDSO is set, the default is 4796 vdso32=0; otherwise, the default is vdso32=1. 4797 4798 For compatibility with older kernels, vdso32=2 is an 4799 alias for vdso32=0. 4800 4801 Try vdso32=0 if you encounter an error that says: 4802 dl_main: Assertion `(void *) ph->p_vaddr == _rtld_local._dl_sysinfo_dso' failed! 4803 4804 vector= [IA-64,SMP] 4805 vector=percpu: enable percpu vector domain 4806 4807 video= [FB] Frame buffer configuration 4808 See Documentation/fb/modedb.txt. 4809 4810 video.brightness_switch_enabled= [0,1] 4811 If set to 1, on receiving an ACPI notify event 4812 generated by hotkey, video driver will adjust brightness 4813 level and then send out the event to user space through 4814 the allocated input device; If set to 0, video driver 4815 will only send out the event without touching backlight 4816 brightness level. 4817 default: 1 4818 4819 virtio_mmio.device= 4820 [VMMIO] Memory mapped virtio (platform) device. 4821 4822 <size>@<baseaddr>:<irq>[:<id>] 4823 where: 4824 <size> := size (can use standard suffixes 4825 like K, M and G) 4826 <baseaddr> := physical base address 4827 <irq> := interrupt number (as passed to 4828 request_irq()) 4829 <id> := (optional) platform device id 4830 example: 4831 virtio_mmio.device=1K@0x100b0000:48:7 4832 4833 Can be used multiple times for multiple devices. 4834 4835 vga= [BOOT,X86-32] Select a particular video mode 4836 See Documentation/x86/boot.txt and 4837 Documentation/svga.txt. 4838 Use vga=ask for menu. 4839 This is actually a boot loader parameter; the value is 4840 passed to the kernel using a special protocol. 4841 4842 vmalloc=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT] Forces the vmalloc area to have an exact 4843 size of <nn>. This can be used to increase the 4844 minimum size (128MB on x86). It can also be used to 4845 decrease the size and leave more room for directly 4846 mapped kernel RAM. 4847 4848 vmcp_cma=nn[MG] [KNL,S390] 4849 Sets the memory size reserved for contiguous memory 4850 allocations for the vmcp device driver. 4851 4852 vmhalt= [KNL,S390] Perform z/VM CP command after system halt. 4853 Format: <command> 4854 4855 vmpanic= [KNL,S390] Perform z/VM CP command after kernel panic. 4856 Format: <command> 4857 4858 vmpoff= [KNL,S390] Perform z/VM CP command after power off. 4859 Format: <command> 4860 4861 vsyscall= [X86-64] 4862 Controls the behavior of vsyscalls (i.e. calls to 4863 fixed addresses of 0xffffffffff600x00 from legacy 4864 code). Most statically-linked binaries and older 4865 versions of glibc use these calls. Because these 4866 functions are at fixed addresses, they make nice 4867 targets for exploits that can control RIP. 4868 4869 emulate [default] Vsyscalls turn into traps and are 4870 emulated reasonably safely. 4871 4872 native Vsyscalls are native syscall instructions. 4873 This is a little bit faster than trapping 4874 and makes a few dynamic recompilers work 4875 better than they would in emulation mode. 4876 It also makes exploits much easier to write. 4877 4878 none Vsyscalls don't work at all. This makes 4879 them quite hard to use for exploits but 4880 might break your system. 4881 4882 vt.color= [VT] Default text color. 4883 Format: 0xYX, X = foreground, Y = background. 4884 Default: 0x07 = light gray on black. 4885 4886 vt.cur_default= [VT] Default cursor shape. 4887 Format: 0xCCBBAA, where AA, BB, and CC are the same as 4888 the parameters of the <Esc>[?A;B;Cc escape sequence; 4889 see VGA-softcursor.txt. Default: 2 = underline. 4890 4891 vt.default_blu= [VT] 4892 Format: <blue0>,<blue1>,<blue2>,...,<blue15> 4893 Change the default blue palette of the console. 4894 This is a 16-member array composed of values 4895 ranging from 0-255. 4896 4897 vt.default_grn= [VT] 4898 Format: <green0>,<green1>,<green2>,...,<green15> 4899 Change the default green palette of the console. 4900 This is a 16-member array composed of values 4901 ranging from 0-255. 4902 4903 vt.default_red= [VT] 4904 Format: <red0>,<red1>,<red2>,...,<red15> 4905 Change the default red palette of the console. 4906 This is a 16-member array composed of values 4907 ranging from 0-255. 4908 4909 vt.default_utf8= 4910 [VT] 4911 Format=<0|1> 4912 Set system-wide default UTF-8 mode for all tty's. 4913 Default is 1, i.e. UTF-8 mode is enabled for all 4914 newly opened terminals. 4915 4916 vt.global_cursor_default= 4917 [VT] 4918 Format=<-1|0|1> 4919 Set system-wide default for whether a cursor 4920 is shown on new VTs. Default is -1, 4921 i.e. cursors will be created by default unless 4922 overridden by individual drivers. 0 will hide 4923 cursors, 1 will display them. 4924 4925 vt.italic= [VT] Default color for italic text; 0-15. 4926 Default: 2 = green. 4927 4928 vt.underline= [VT] Default color for underlined text; 0-15. 4929 Default: 3 = cyan. 4930 4931 watchdog timers [HW,WDT] For information on watchdog timers, 4932 see Documentation/watchdog/watchdog-parameters.txt 4933 or other driver-specific files in the 4934 Documentation/watchdog/ directory. 4935 4936 workqueue.watchdog_thresh= 4937 If CONFIG_WQ_WATCHDOG is configured, workqueue can 4938 warn stall conditions and dump internal state to 4939 help debugging. 0 disables workqueue stall 4940 detection; otherwise, it's the stall threshold 4941 duration in seconds. The default value is 30 and 4942 it can be updated at runtime by writing to the 4943 corresponding sysfs file. 4944 4945 workqueue.disable_numa 4946 By default, all work items queued to unbound 4947 workqueues are affine to the NUMA nodes they're 4948 issued on, which results in better behavior in 4949 general. If NUMA affinity needs to be disabled for 4950 whatever reason, this option can be used. Note 4951 that this also can be controlled per-workqueue for 4952 workqueues visible under /sys/bus/workqueue/. 4953 4954 workqueue.power_efficient 4955 Per-cpu workqueues are generally preferred because 4956 they show better performance thanks to cache 4957 locality; unfortunately, per-cpu workqueues tend to 4958 be more power hungry than unbound workqueues. 4959 4960 Enabling this makes the per-cpu workqueues which 4961 were observed to contribute significantly to power 4962 consumption unbound, leading to measurably lower 4963 power usage at the cost of small performance 4964 overhead. 4965 4966 The default value of this parameter is determined by 4967 the config option CONFIG_WQ_POWER_EFFICIENT_DEFAULT. 4968 4969 workqueue.debug_force_rr_cpu 4970 Workqueue used to implicitly guarantee that work 4971 items queued without explicit CPU specified are put 4972 on the local CPU. This guarantee is no longer true 4973 and while local CPU is still preferred work items 4974 may be put on foreign CPUs. This debug option 4975 forces round-robin CPU selection to flush out 4976 usages which depend on the now broken guarantee. 4977 When enabled, memory and cache locality will be 4978 impacted. 4979 4980 x2apic_phys [X86-64,APIC] Use x2apic physical mode instead of 4981 default x2apic cluster mode on platforms 4982 supporting x2apic. 4983 4984 x86_intel_mid_timer= [X86-32,APBT] 4985 Choose timer option for x86 Intel MID platform. 4986 Two valid options are apbt timer only and lapic timer 4987 plus one apbt timer for broadcast timer. 4988 x86_intel_mid_timer=apbt_only | lapic_and_apbt 4989 4990 xen_512gb_limit [KNL,X86-64,XEN] 4991 Restricts the kernel running paravirtualized under Xen 4992 to use only up to 512 GB of RAM. The reason to do so is 4993 crash analysis tools and Xen tools for doing domain 4994 save/restore/migration must be enabled to handle larger 4995 domains. 4996 4997 xen_emul_unplug= [HW,X86,XEN] 4998 Unplug Xen emulated devices 4999 Format: [unplug0,][unplug1] 5000 ide-disks -- unplug primary master IDE devices 5001 aux-ide-disks -- unplug non-primary-master IDE devices 5002 nics -- unplug network devices 5003 all -- unplug all emulated devices (NICs and IDE disks) 5004 unnecessary -- unplugging emulated devices is 5005 unnecessary even if the host did not respond to 5006 the unplug protocol 5007 never -- do not unplug even if version check succeeds 5008 5009 xen_nopvspin [X86,XEN] 5010 Disables the ticketlock slowpath using Xen PV 5011 optimizations. 5012 5013 xen_nopv [X86] 5014 Disables the PV optimizations forcing the HVM guest to 5015 run as generic HVM guest with no PV drivers. 5016 5017 xen_scrub_pages= [XEN] 5018 Boolean option to control scrubbing pages before giving them back 5019 to Xen, for use by other domains. Can be also changed at runtime 5020 with /sys/devices/system/xen_memory/xen_memory0/scrub_pages. 5021 Default value controlled with CONFIG_XEN_SCRUB_PAGES_DEFAULT. 5022 5023 xirc2ps_cs= [NET,PCMCIA] 5024 Format: 5025 <irq>,<irq_mask>,<io>,<full_duplex>,<do_sound>,<lockup_hack>[,<irq2>[,<irq3>[,<irq4>]]] 5026 5027 xhci-hcd.quirks [USB,KNL] 5028 A hex value specifying bitmask with supplemental xhci 5029 host controller quirks. Meaning of each bit can be 5030 consulted in header drivers/usb/host/xhci.h. 5031